BIB_ID
119301
Accession number
MA 9748
Creator
Yates, Frederick Henry, 1795-1842.
Display Date
[1839] October 20.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 18 x 11.2 cm
Notes
Written in the third person.
Yates gives the place of writing as the Adelphi Theatre, which was located in London.
Addressed to: "Colburn Esq / Marlboro Street." Signed F.H. Yates below. Henry Colburn was a publisher, bookseller and owner of a circulating library; in 1839, he published Neale's book The Flying Dutchman.
The year of writing that Yates gives is not clear, but internal evidence strongly supports a dating of 1839.
Yates gives the place of writing as the Adelphi Theatre, which was located in London.
Addressed to: "Colburn Esq / Marlboro Street." Signed F.H. Yates below. Henry Colburn was a publisher, bookseller and owner of a circulating library; in 1839, he published Neale's book The Flying Dutchman.
The year of writing that Yates gives is not clear, but internal evidence strongly supports a dating of 1839.
Summary
Saying that he has just read an extract from The Flying Dutchman, by the author of Cavendish (referring to William Johnson Neale, author The Flying Dutchman: A Legend of the High Seas and Cavendish, or the Patrician at Sea); writing that he "thinks it dramatic"; asking Colburn to send him the book.
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