BIB_ID
105178
Accession number
MA 9528.3
Creator
Grove, D., active 19th century.
Display Date
1814 October 19.
Credit line
Purchased, 1891.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 22.5 x 18.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmarks: "R. W. Elliston Esq / Stratford Place / Oxford Street / London."
Part of a collection of three letters from Grove to R. W. Elliston, who leased the Birmingham Theatre from 1813 to 1818. Each item has been described in an individual catalog record.
Removed from an extra-illustrated volume from the series Dramatic Memoirs (PML 9505-9528).
Part of a collection of three letters from Grove to R. W. Elliston, who leased the Birmingham Theatre from 1813 to 1818. Each item has been described in an individual catalog record.
Removed from an extra-illustrated volume from the series Dramatic Memoirs (PML 9505-9528).
Provenance
Purchased from Henry Sotheran & Co., London, 1891.
Summary
Telling Elliston what the receipts were for the previous evening and asking him questions about the accounting for various benefits, including Edmund Kean's; saying that he has given officially given Mr. Lewis notice and discussing Lewis's schedule; asking about Mrs. and Miss King's salary; saying that Davis had been "in a great fidget" this morning about a new covering for Timour's car (probably a reference to the melodrama Timour, The Tartar); saying he decided to use "the Crimson Stuff Curtains, which had been ill patched for Aladdin" for the covering; describing the ongoing partisanship on behalf of Miss Norton: "the Walls in the Morning seem to have been prepared by her party during the night -- this morning the following were conspicuous -- "No Elliston" -- "D--n Elliston" -- "Miss Norton's Benefit" -- "Down with Elliston -- D--n'd ill usage &c&c"; discussing the number and length of seasons at the Birmingham Theatre; cautioning Elliston against going to the law for legal redress.
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