BIB_ID
106030
Accession number
MA 9457.2
Creator
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806.
Display Date
[1795].
Credit line
Purchased, 1891.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) : 22.7 x 18.7 cm
Notes
Written in the third person.
Address panel: "Mr Elliston / Bath."
The letter from Richard Brinsley Sheridan that this letter was enclosed with is catalogued as MA 9457.1.
Cavendish's letter is undated, but based on the dating of Sheridan's cover letter, it must have been written in 1795, and probably on or near July 5th.
Removed from an extra-illustrated volume from the series Dramatic Memoirs (PML 9505-9528).
Address panel: "Mr Elliston / Bath."
The letter from Richard Brinsley Sheridan that this letter was enclosed with is catalogued as MA 9457.1.
Cavendish's letter is undated, but based on the dating of Sheridan's cover letter, it must have been written in 1795, and probably on or near July 5th.
Removed from an extra-illustrated volume from the series Dramatic Memoirs (PML 9505-9528).
Provenance
Purchased from Henry Sotheran & Co., London, 1891.
Summary
Saying that she has heard so much about Elliston's success; suggesting that he join the Drury Lane Theatre; adding that Sheridan would offer him "terms he would approve of"; assuring him of her assistance.
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