Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Notes on David Garrick and his family : to the editor of the Annual Register, 1776 or later.

BIB_ID
107908
Accession number
MA 693.40
Display Date
1776 or later.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 12.2 x 19 cm
Notes
"Reading some days past in your Annual Register for 1776 ... A short Review of Mr. Garrick's Theatrical Reign, I find your Compiler was not acquainted with some particulars relating to him and his Family of which I was informed many years ago by his father[']s sister the Mother of the late Mr. Peter Fermingnac...."
Earlier cataloging suggests this may have been written by Richard Burke (either the brother or son of Edmund Burke?), but there is nothing to corroborate this.
Part of a collection of letters related to Edmund Burke; see main record for MA 693 for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1910.
Summary
Giving details of David Garrick's family and his early life.