BIB_ID
106018
Accession number
MA 9450
Creator
Buckstone, John Baldwin, 1802-1879.
Display Date
[circa 1835].
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 19.4 x 12.3 cm
Notes
Written in the third person.
"The Christening" opened at the Adelphi Theatre in October 1834. The letter is undated, but a first volume of Buckstone's plays (not including "The Christening") was published by William Strange in London in 1835 and may have been followed by a second.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of John Forster, The life of Charles Dickens (London: Chapman and Hall, 1872-1874); Call number: 509 D548 F.
"The Christening" opened at the Adelphi Theatre in October 1834. The letter is undated, but a first volume of Buckstone's plays (not including "The Christening") was published by William Strange in London in 1835 and may have been followed by a second.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of John Forster, The life of Charles Dickens (London: Chapman and Hall, 1872-1874); Call number: 509 D548 F.
Summary
Sending a copy of his play "The Christening" for review; describing it as "the new Adelphi farce"; making a suggestion: "Perhaps a glance at the preface to the first volume, which is given with the enclosed, alluding to a late decision in the Court of Kings Bench may not be uninteresting"; thanking the critics for "the very great kindness with which they have always treated him."
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