BIB_ID
137352
Accession number
MA 9692
Creator
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816.
Display Date
undated [1798].
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 22.7 x 18.7 cm
Notes
Sheridan gives only "Monday [or possibly Tuesday?] morn" for the date of writing. In The Letters of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Price suggests that this letter may have been written in autumn 1798, based on known dates of productions mentioned in the letter. See citation below for more detailed information.
Written from "Polesden," standing for Polesden Lacey, Sheridan's country estate in Great Bookham, Surrey.
Address panel: "James Aikin / D. L. Theatre / RB Sheridan."
Written from "Polesden," standing for Polesden Lacey, Sheridan's country estate in Great Bookham, Surrey.
Address panel: "James Aikin / D. L. Theatre / RB Sheridan."
Provenance
From the Kaye-Dowland Byron collection.
Summary
Concerning plays to be produced at the Drury Lane Theatre in the coming season; saying "There is a Tragedy of [Thomas] Whalley's in Mr. Siddons Hands which we are pledged to do. Pray get it from him -- and the faster it is brought forward, the better"; mentioning "Mr. Hoare's farce and the Piece of Boadens" (probably referring to Prince Hoare and James Boaden) as well; adding "I wish Johnson & Greenwood had the Plots of all -- There is not much expence in any of them." (Price identifies Johnson as a machinist and maker of properties at Drury Lane.)
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