BIB_ID
127204
Accession number
MA 9669
Creator
Quin, Edward Turnly, 1762-1823.
Display Date
1807 September 8.
Credit line
Purchased, 1891.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 22.7 x 18.2 cm
Notes
Address panel with part of a seal: "Mr. Peake / Theatre / Drury Lane."
Quin's correspondent may have been Richard Peake (father of the playwright Richard Brinsley Peake), who was serving as under-treasurer of Drury Lane in this period.
Removed from an extra-illustrated volume from the series Dramatic Memoirs (PML 9505-9528).
Quin's correspondent may have been Richard Peake (father of the playwright Richard Brinsley Peake), who was serving as under-treasurer of Drury Lane in this period.
Removed from an extra-illustrated volume from the series Dramatic Memoirs (PML 9505-9528).
Provenance
Purchased from Henry Sotheran & Co., London, 1891.
Summary
Saying that a Mr. Stokes, printer of the Commercial Chronicle, "wishes much to be accomodated with the freedom of admission"; adding "If it be customary & consistent with the etiquette of the Theatre there is I think no doubt of your interesting yourself in his favour."
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