BIB_ID
137467
Accession number
MA 9693
Creator
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816.
Display Date
[1806 September 13].
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 23.4 x 18.6 cm
Notes
Signed with initials.
Sheridan gives only "Sat Night" for the date of writing. Fox died in the early evening on September 13, 1806, which was a Saturday. In The Letters of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Price proposes that this letter was also written on the 13th; see the citation below.
Price identifies Graham as a candidate who ran unsuccessfully against Fox in the Westminister election of 1802.
Sheridan gives only "Sat Night" for the date of writing. Fox died in the early evening on September 13, 1806, which was a Saturday. In The Letters of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Price proposes that this letter was also written on the 13th; see the citation below.
Price identifies Graham as a candidate who ran unsuccessfully against Fox in the Westminister election of 1802.
Summary
Concerning the death of Charles James Fox and the question of political succession: saying that he is now well enough to "speak on the subject of the Vacancy in Westminster by our irreparable Loss the slightest hopes of whose recovery have seal'd my Lips"; adding "There have been scandalous tricks play'd too long to explain now -- but we must be alert if we wish to have a chance that Fox should be succeeded by a Foxite"; inviting Graham to meet with him and "a few Friends" at Sheridan's house the following day; adding that he is sending this letter express so as to reach Graham next morning.
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