BIB_ID
129141
Accession number
MA 9428
Creator
Bannister, John, 1760-1836.
Display Date
[1803].
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 21.9 x 18.7 cm
Notes
Address panel to "Wm. Woodfall Esq'r / Queen Street / Westminster."
Docketed as " 1803 / John Bannister / Free Admission to Drury Lane / & Soph's first Appearance."
Year of writing from docket.
William Woodfall was a journalist and newspaper editor. His daughter, Sophia, was a novelist and actress.
Docketed as " 1803 / John Bannister / Free Admission to Drury Lane / & Soph's first Appearance."
Year of writing from docket.
William Woodfall was a journalist and newspaper editor. His daughter, Sophia, was a novelist and actress.
Summary
Concerning his name on the Free List for the Drury Lane Theatre; apologizing for any inconvenience he had on his last visit to the theatre and saying "You are entitled to the freedom in your own right and I hope in future you will visit the Theatre as Mr. Sheridan's Friend - independent of every other consideration - pray particularly explain to me the expectation of the Gentlemen concerned in the new Publication respecting the freedom of the Theatre which you have not made very clear...;" asking that he call on him at the theatre to explain in person; questioning Woodfall's daughter's upcoming performance in the 'Count of Narbonne' and asking if she has his consent; "saying "She speaks sensibly [,] possesses plaintive tones, but at present I fear her powers are not equal to our [illegible] grown House;" adding, in a postscript, "...that the Woodfalls are all included in the free List and it has never been altered."
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