BIB_ID
126766
Accession number
MA 9521
Creator
Elliston, Edmund, active 18th century.
Display Date
1797 January 16.
Credit line
Purchased, 1891.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 19.1 x 22.5 cm
Notes
Elliston spells the place of writing "Gainsbro'."
Address panel with postmarks: "Mr Robert Elliston / Theatre / Bath."
Docketed.
Edmund Elliston may be the "Captain Elliston" that R. W. Elliston refers to in two letters in the Morgan's collection (MA 9513.7 and MA 9513.22).
Removed from an extra-illustrated volume from the series Dramatic Memoirs (PML 9505-9528).
Address panel with postmarks: "Mr Robert Elliston / Theatre / Bath."
Docketed.
Edmund Elliston may be the "Captain Elliston" that R. W. Elliston refers to in two letters in the Morgan's collection (MA 9513.7 and MA 9513.22).
Removed from an extra-illustrated volume from the series Dramatic Memoirs (PML 9505-9528).
Provenance
Purchased from Henry Sotheran & Co., London, 1891.
Summary
Thanking him for his letter of August 19th; writing that it "gave your aunt and myself great pleasure to see by the Papers the kind reception you met from the Public which I most cordially hope will ever continue"; mentioning that a friend, Reverend Mr. Bassett, traveled from Gainsborough to Bath recently and was to have paid his greetings to R. W. Elliston, but that he took ill and died soon after reaching Bath; mourning his loss; writing that he was "in great expectations the latter end of the year that I should have got from this, but [Peace] not taking place has much disappointed me"; adding "its a long time since I have seen any but new faces. I greatly like now and then to recognize an old friend, for as Sr. Wm Temple used to say Old Friends, Old Wine, & Old Shoes are some of the greatest comforts of Life. I yet hope before the summer comes that affairs will be accommodated"; concluding "your Aunt unites with me in wishing you and your Wife to enjoy all the above comforts in due time with as many new ones as it may please the good one to send you...".
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