BIB_ID
127699
Accession number
MA 9666
Creator
Pope, Elizabeth, approximately 1740-1797.
Display Date
[1775 January 10].
Credit line
Purchased, 1891.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 22.8 x 18.4 cm
Notes
The letter is undated. It appears to be part of an exchange with Garrick over whether or not Pope (then known by her maiden name of Younge) would play Viola in a command performance of Twelfth Night at Drury Lane. The Morgan also holds the letter from Garrick that Pope's letter responds to, which is catalogued as MA 161.15. The probable dating of this letter is taken from the published version of Garrick's correspondence; see The Letters of David Garrick, ed. David M. Little and George M. Kahrl (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1963), volume 3, letter 883, page 980.
Addressed to "D. Garrick Esqr."
Removed from an extra-illustrated volume from the series Dramatic Memoirs (PML 9505-9528).
Addressed to "D. Garrick Esqr."
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 she is compelled "in my own justification to trouble you a third time to day"; writing that she does not understand what he means by "his Majesty of England and the Copper one of Drury Lane"; arguing that she has "on all occasions without airs or Finesse come out to do my business and felt [it] my pleasure as well as duty, and therefore cant think my self humanely treated when I complain and feel the bad effects of playing with a cough, that you shou'd send me this haughty stile of letter"; adding "I am already too low spirited with the pain I feel at my chest, and think it cruil [sic] in you to wish to wound me more, you dont want feeling for other people, and why will you appear so unlike your self when I am the object distress'd."
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