BIB_ID
301330
Accession number
MA 2096.35
Creator
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873.
Display Date
[1839 Mar. 4].
Credit line
Gift of Weber de Vore, 1961.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.5 cm
Notes
Dating from Shattuck.
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.
The first of two letters dated to 4 March 1839.
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.
The first of two letters dated to 4 March 1839.
Provenance
Gift of Weber de Vore in 1961.
Summary
Asking Macready to guard him from the patrons who previously declared themselves Lytton's "most bitter persecutors," noting that they are "always found in the shilling gallery the first night of my plays & carry on their malignant discords under the innocent but delusive appellation of "BABIES"!"
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