BIB_ID
411562
Accession number
MA 9513.3
Creator
Elliston, R. W. (Robert William), 1774-1831.
Display Date
1793 May 23.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 22.1 x 18.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmarks: "Rev'd Dr Elliston / Sidney College / Cambridge."
Docketed.
Part of a collection of twenty-three letters from R. W. Elliston to his uncle William Elliston. Items in the collection have been described in individual catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Removed from an extra-illustrated volume in the series titled Dramatic Memoirs.
Docketed.
Part of a collection of twenty-three letters from R. W. Elliston to his uncle William Elliston. Items in the collection have been described in individual catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Removed from an extra-illustrated volume in the series titled Dramatic Memoirs.
Summary
Saying that he has been waiting "with the greatest anxiety" for a response from his uncle; pleading his case: "I never did, never will try to extenuate my folly, the recollection of which has fill'd me with the most bitter & painful sensations. All that a mind sensible of its mistake, & sincere in its regret could say (as far as my education has enabled me) I have endeavour'd to say. My only motive was -- to regain yr esteem [...] I was aware that I had hurt yr feelings in the most essential manner, & it has been my chief study to obliterate from your memory the recollection of my offences. Fortune has hitherto favour'd me with a competency sufficient to enable me to live without troubling my friends, & I trust while my endeavours are honest, she will continue her favours"; writing that he is sorry not to have heard from Elliston and had hoped to arrange a meeting: "when I found there was no likelihood of hearing from you, I thought it right (immediately my engagements with Mr [Tate] Wilkinson should end) to come to London, where I should not only have the happiness (by yr permission) of seeing you, but an opportunity of removing any impressions which ill founded reports might have created in your breast to my disadvantage"; apologizing if he has offended his uncle with his letters; writing that "all I am desirous of is yr sanction to my present profession, or that you will point out any thing else I can undertake as preferable"; adding "Whatever you demand, I will chearfully comply. Whatever you advise, I will readily follow"; concluding "be assur'd that as long as I live, wherever I am, or however circumstanc'd it will be my first pride to acknowledge the obligations I owe to an Uncle who once esteem'd me, & of whom I shall never think but with the sensations of the most lively respect."
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