BIB_ID
394106
Accession number
MA 13177
Creator
Baillie, Matthew, 1761-1823.
Display Date
1798 Dec. 14.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 22.8 cm
Notes
Addressed from "Great Windmill Street" in London.
Postmarked with remains of seal and addressed: Messrs Cadell & Davies / Book Sellers / Strand.
With a draft (?) of a letter on p. 3 by publisher's Cadell & Davies to Mr. Kemble, conveying the contents of Matthew Baillie's response on the part of his sister granting him permission to edit De Montfort for the stage.
Postmarked with remains of seal and addressed: Messrs Cadell & Davies / Book Sellers / Strand.
With a draft (?) of a letter on p. 3 by publisher's Cadell & Davies to Mr. Kemble, conveying the contents of Matthew Baillie's response on the part of his sister granting him permission to edit De Montfort for the stage.
Provenance
Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Communicating on behalf of his sister, Joanna Baillie (here only identified as "a Lady") her willingness to grant Mr. Kemble, on whose behalf Cadell & Davies had previously written, permission to make appropriate alterations to her tragedy "De Montfort" with the aim of having it performed on the stage.
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