BIB_ID
301325
Accession number
MA 2096.32
Creator
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873.
Display Date
[1839 Jan. 3].
Credit line
Gift of Weber de Vore, 1961.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 24 cm
Notes
Dating from Shattuck.
Docketed.
Part of a collection of letters from Edward Bulwer Lytton to the actor William Macready. Items in the collection have been described in individual catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Docketed.
Part of a collection of letters from Edward Bulwer Lytton to the actor William Macready. Items in the collection have been described in individual catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Gift of Weber de Vore in 1961.
Summary
Discussing the potential audience response to his play Richelieu, noting that "without great alteration -- the 3rd Act would close with hisses." Asking Macready to "try the ordeal of reading it to women & a few plain (not literary) men" to gauge reception.
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