BIB_ID
104498
Accession number
MA 9589
Creator
Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823.
Display Date
undated [before 1807].
Credit line
Purchased, 1891.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 22.8 x 18.8 cm
Notes
Kemble gives only "Saturday" for the date of writing, but this letter must have been written before Reed's death in 1807.
Written from "No. 13 Caroline Street. / Bedford Square."
Address panel with wafer: "For / Isaac Reed Esqre / No. 1 Staple Inn / Holborn." Kemble has also added "Half past 5 o'Clock" and the abbreviation "P.pd." after the address.
Removed from an extra-illustrated volume from the series Dramatic Memoirs (PML 9505-9528).
Written from "No. 13 Caroline Street. / Bedford Square."
Address panel with wafer: "For / Isaac Reed Esqre / No. 1 Staple Inn / Holborn." Kemble has also added "Half past 5 o'Clock" and the abbreviation "P.pd." after the address.
Removed from an extra-illustrated volume from the series Dramatic Memoirs (PML 9505-9528).
Provenance
Purchased from Henry Sotheran & Co., London, 1891.
Summary
Concerning an imposter: "I should be sorry to seem either arrogant or ungrateful; yet really I do not perceive how I am entitled to any acknowledgement for a mere Willingness to assist towards the complete Conviction of an impudent Imposter -- particularly from a Gentleman with whom I can hardly venture to say I have the Pleasure of being acquainted"; saying that he had intended to ask Reed in person for advice on this matter, but a severe cold had confined him to his room; continuing "I did not write, because I hop'd every Day that I should be able to wait upon you the next; but now, I have an Inflamation in my Eyes, which, Mr. Phipps says, is going about, -- I must not delay my sending to you any longer, for fear I may soon be blind, -- a Comfort which, by Heaven's Blessing, he seems to think not quite out of my Reach."
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