BIB_ID
405186
Accession number
MA 13717
Creator
Chapman, M. J. (Matthew James), -1865.
Display Date
[1837].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 24.6 x 19.6 cm
Notes
Addressed, with seal, "Covent Garden / To the Editor / of The Age".
Letter signed "Horace".
Identity of the writer and recipient supplied from accompanying documentation.
Bulwer-Lytton's play, The Duchess de la Vallière, was produced at Covent Garden in 1837.
Letter signed "Horace".
Identity of the writer and recipient supplied from accompanying documentation.
Bulwer-Lytton's play, The Duchess de la Vallière, was produced at Covent Garden in 1837.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Sending him a critique of [Edward Bulwer-Lytton's play] The Duchess de la Vallière ("a wretched thing-altogether beneath criticism ... I see it is attempted to force Bulwer's abortive effort at a play down the throat of the public. He had lots of claqueurs in the house".
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