BIB_ID
290157
Accession number
MA 103.4
Creator
Marston, Westland, 1819-1890.
Display Date
1841 May 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of two manuscript copies of Dickens' prologue to Marston's "The Patrician's Daughter;" eight related autograph letters and three engravings of Charles Dickens. Items are cataloged individually in thirteen records; see related records for full description.
Written from 9, Howard Street, Norfolk Street, Strand. Docketed in pencil.
Written from 9, Howard Street, Norfolk Street, Strand. Docketed in pencil.
Summary
Noting that as Macready has had Marston's play [probably The Patrician's Daughter] in his possession for three months, and asking him for "a decisive opinion as to its capacity for representation."
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