BIB_ID
129203
Accession number
MA 9440
Creator
Bartley, George, 1782-1858.
Display Date
[1813 November 26].
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 20.6 x 16.5 cm
Notes
Bartley gives the date of writing only as "Friday." The year, month and day has been drawn from the postmark. November 26th fell on a Friday in 1813.
Address panel with postmarks: "For / R. W. Elliston Esqr / Surrey Theatre / London."
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of John Forster, The life of Charles Dickens (London: Chapman and Hall, 1872-1874); Call number: 509 D548 F.
Address panel with postmarks: "For / R. W. Elliston Esqr / Surrey Theatre / London."
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of John Forster, The life of Charles Dickens (London: Chapman and Hall, 1872-1874); Call number: 509 D548 F.
Summary
Assuring him that the Italian soprano Angelica Catalani will sing, after some uncertainty about whether or not the performance would go forward; discussing how the expenses and profits should be split: "Did I misunderstand you, or did you not say to me in Coventry, we should equally share the said night?"; promising to write further once he receives Elliston's response; adding in a postscript that "[t]he 4 Chandilers will not be enough [...] they have been used to 45 Candles in front!"
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