Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed with initials : place not specified, to William Macready, [1839 Jan. 3].

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.
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.