BIB_ID
411496
Accession number
MA 9511
Creator
Elliston, Elizabeth Rundall, 1775-1821.
Display Date
1796 August 13.
Credit line
Purchased, 1891.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 23.3 x 18.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark to "Rev'd Dr Elliston / Sydney College / Cambridge."
Docketed.
Elizabeth and R. W. Elliston were married on June 1, 1796.
William Elliston was the Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University. He was the uncle of R. W. Elliston.
The Morgan also holds a letter written by R. W. Elliston to William Elliston on the same day, August 13, 1796 (MA 9513.10), as well as a letter from William Elliston to R. W. Elliston written July 19, 1796, describing the books he intends to send Elizabeth and her sister (MA 9522.2).
Removed from an extra-illustrated volume from the series Dramatic Memoirs (PML 9505-9528).
Docketed.
Elizabeth and R. W. Elliston were married on June 1, 1796.
William Elliston was the Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University. He was the uncle of R. W. Elliston.
The Morgan also holds a letter written by R. W. Elliston to William Elliston on the same day, August 13, 1796 (MA 9513.10), as well as a letter from William Elliston to R. W. Elliston written July 19, 1796, describing the books he intends to send Elizabeth and her sister (MA 9522.2).
Removed from an extra-illustrated volume from the series Dramatic Memoirs (PML 9505-9528).
Provenance
Purchased from Henry Sotheran & Co., London, 1891.
Summary
Apologizing for the tardiness of her letter; saying that his nephew "...left Bath for London last Wednesday - I had the happiness to hear from him of his safe arrival there; he was to play Octavian last night - & now I'm longing to hear how he was received - I fancy he means to attempt Hamlet, what other character I know not - Now my Dear Sir I will tell you a little of myself - our dancing academy is as well attended as can be expected this time of the year - we have about seven or eight couples - these are taught twice a week at our own house - private scholars I attend at their houses, of the latter I have only four as yet - but three schools, one in the Country about nine miles from Bath, where we go once a week to teach about forty scholars, another school in Bath that has between twenty & thirty & the other in the suburbs of Bath that has about nine or ten - so that my time is well employ'd even now - so much the better you will say, young people should not be Idle, true, Sir - it is not a wish of mine to be so I assure you - I feel much gratitude toward you for your good intention in sending me a book - be assured these trifles as you call them are accepted as intended, your consideration for my youngest Sister whom you never saw encreases my respect & Love for you - I feel it as the attention of a Father, It pleased Heaven to take mine from me when I was very young - but I find him restored again in you - every action convinces me of it - Advise & Love me then as a Daughter, & I will endeavor to prove myself worthy of your affection by [illegible] following your advice & paying obedience to your commands - but I begin to trespass on your patience - I will hasten to conclude; first assuring you of my Husbands & my own unalterable affection & with every Dutiful sentiment..."
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