BIB_ID
124631
Accession number
MA 9524.3
Creator
Martyn, Thomas, 1735-1825.
Display Date
1807 February 24.
Credit line
Purchased, 1891.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.3 x 18.2 cm
Notes
The location of "Tide Lodge" has not been identified. At this point in his life, Martyn was living in Pertenhall, Bedfordshire, so it may be in that vicinity.
Addressed to: "R. W. Elliston Esq / North Street / Westminster / By favour of Mr Fisher."
The uncle referred to in this letter is William Elliston, Martha Elliston's brother, who had recently died. His death was also the reason for the election of a new Master of Sidney Sussex College, for which Francis Wollaston put himself forward.
Part of a collection of three letters from Thomas Martyn to his nephew R. W. Elliston. Each item has been described in an individual catalog record.
Removed from an extra-illustrated volume from the series Dramatic Memoirs (PML 9505-9528).
Addressed to: "R. W. Elliston Esq / North Street / Westminster / By favour of Mr Fisher."
The uncle referred to in this letter is William Elliston, Martha Elliston's brother, who had recently died. His death was also the reason for the election of a new Master of Sidney Sussex College, for which Francis Wollaston put himself forward.
Part of a collection of three letters from Thomas Martyn to his nephew R. W. Elliston. Each item has been described in an individual catalog record.
Removed from an extra-illustrated volume from the series Dramatic Memoirs (PML 9505-9528).
Provenance
Purchased from Henry Sotheran & Co., London, 1891.
Summary
Congratulating Elliston on the success of The Curfew (a play by John Tobin) and the reviews of his performance; relaying Cambridge news: "The opposition of Messrs Chafy and Hosking to the election of Mr [Francis] Wollaston to the Mastership is very violent, but probably will evaporate in smoke"; referring to a codicil to a will; saying that he has written to "the two ladies in Prospect Place" and he hopes that Elliston has seen them; discussing a harpsichord: "Your Aunt thinks that your Uncle's Harpsichord, being of a peculiar construction, more perfect than the common ones, might be of use to a Composer; she offers it therefore to your Wife, supposing that it might be useful to her, if she settles in town, and at the same time agreeable to you as a memorial of your Uncle"; sending news of his son John King Martyn and asking in a postscript whether Elliston had "writ to Harrington and heard any thing of him."
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