BIB_ID
116273
Accession number
MA 177.159
Creator
Tickell, Richard, 1751-1793.
Display Date
1788 Feb.1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1890.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 23.5 cm
Notes
It is most likely that the loss to which Mr. Tickell refers is the death of his wife, Mary Linley in July of 1787; Mary Linley was the sister of Elizabeth Linley, wife of Richard Sheridan.
Part of a large collection of letters related to the trial of Warren Hastings; see collection-level record (MA 176-177) for more information.
There is no salutation to Lord Abingdon, however, Mr. Tickell sends his respects to Lady Willoughby at the close of the letter.
With a copy, in an unknown hand, of the reply to Mr. Tickell and a newspaper clipping of the account of Mr. Tickell's suicide.
Part of a large collection of letters related to the trial of Warren Hastings; see collection-level record (MA 176-177) for more information.
There is no salutation to Lord Abingdon, however, Mr. Tickell sends his respects to Lady Willoughby at the close of the letter.
With a copy, in an unknown hand, of the reply to Mr. Tickell and a newspaper clipping of the account of Mr. Tickell's suicide.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson in 1890.
Summary
Requesting "permission to hear the Impeachment. You will feel how anxiously the Admirers of the best rhetoric will wish to be present when Three of the greatest Orators are to plead such a cause; & joined to the love of these studies which you know I have long had, I will add one very different argument to excuse my freedom --I mean, what I ask here Lady Willoughby & you will believe that to me any object that can take me from my own thoughts is now become what, those who can judge of my loss, will be anxious to afford me."
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