BIB_ID
106135
Accession number
MA 9465
Creator
Collins, Anna, active 18th century.
Display Date
1797 August 13.
Credit line
Purchased, 1891.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 23.9 x 18.6 cm
Notes
Written from Ashley Grove.
Anna Collins is probably the "Mrs. Collins" referred to in George Raymond's biography of Elliston, Memoirs of Robert William Elliston, Comedian (London: John Ollivier, 1846), pages 91 et al.
Address panel with postmarks: "Mr Elliston / Frith Street, / Soho, / London."
Removed from an extra-illustrated volume from the series Dramatic Memoirs (PML 9505-9528).
Anna Collins is probably the "Mrs. Collins" referred to in George Raymond's biography of Elliston, Memoirs of Robert William Elliston, Comedian (London: John Ollivier, 1846), pages 91 et al.
Address panel with postmarks: "Mr Elliston / Frith Street, / Soho, / London."
Removed from an extra-illustrated volume from the series Dramatic Memoirs (PML 9505-9528).
Provenance
Purchased from Henry Sotheran & Co., London, 1891.
Summary
Congratulating him on his success at the Haymarket Theatre: "it was such, as my sanguine hopes predicted; & which I am willing to flatter myself, will follow you through all your characters, with encreasing admiration"; telling him to follow George Colman's advice; expressing her confidence in his future: "You have talents to succeed in any line of acting you will properly study"; writing that she was therefore sorry to hear that he had recently acted in Comus in Bristol, "not to advantage, & of course lessened your own credit & disappointed the audience"; suggesting that he try it again in Bath in February: "I should relish it extremely, & as it wd. have the charm of novelty, think it might be very attractive"; saying that she has a number of friends who would like to see him perform; suggesting another play and a part in which he might show off his "versatility of talent"; writing that she hears that Sarah Siddons is playing to empty benches; adding that she has heard from his wife Elizabeth Elliston, "who mentions the health of my little God-daughter"; writing of other plays he is appearing in and her interest in hearing about "[e]very character you perform -- [e]very plan you fix upon"; asking in a postscript if he could save a playbill for her: "To see your name flourishing in the Metropolis, would be gratifying to your friends in this part of the World."
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