BIB_ID
365411
Accession number
MA 161.13
Creator
Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
Display Date
[17--?] June 15.
Credit line
Acquired before 1922.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 19.1 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters from and related to David Garrick; see MA 161 for more details.
Place of writing is based on the first sentence of the letter, "We shall leave Hampton on Sunday next...."
Garrick does not list a year of writing. Based on references in the letter to "Gentlemen of the Corporation" (probably a reference to the Stratford Corporation) and "Mr. Peyton" (probably John Payton, Master of the White Lion Inn in Stratford), it is likely that the letter was written in 1769, during the planning for the Shakespeare Jubilee. An earlier catalog record for the letter listed Joseph Cradock as a possible recipient, though that has not been verified.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of Fulcher's Life of Gainsborough in 1922.
Place of writing is based on the first sentence of the letter, "We shall leave Hampton on Sunday next...."
Garrick does not list a year of writing. Based on references in the letter to "Gentlemen of the Corporation" (probably a reference to the Stratford Corporation) and "Mr. Peyton" (probably John Payton, Master of the White Lion Inn in Stratford), it is likely that the letter was written in 1769, during the planning for the Shakespeare Jubilee. An earlier catalog record for the letter listed Joseph Cradock as a possible recipient, though that has not been verified.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of Fulcher's Life of Gainsborough in 1922.
Summary
Mentioning that he plans to dine with him on Monday; asking him to speak to Mr. Peyton to reserve rooms for him, some of his relatives, and "five or six servants"; mentioning that "Lord & Lady Charles Spencer, Mr & Mrs [Walsingham] &c &c have given me Companions & I might have had a thousand if I would have been troubled with them"; sending his compliments to the "Gentlemen of the Corporation."
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