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Autograph letter signed : Bath, to William Elliston, 1796 July 6.

BIB_ID
411577
Accession number
MA 9513.7
Creator
Elliston, R. W. (Robert William), 1774-1831.
Display Date
1796 July 6.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 22.9 x 18.7 cm
Notes
Written from "No. 2 Chappel Row / Queen Square."
Address panel with postmark: "Rev'd Dr Elliston / No. 53 Frith St. Soho / London."
Docketed.
The address panel also contains a series of calculations and a note about sending certain sums, probably in William Elliston's hand.
The Morgan also holds a letter written by Elizabeth Rundall Elliston to William Elliston on July 4, 1796 (MA 9510).
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 and his wife Elizabeth have just returned from Bristol, where he performed: "My reception from my brethren of the sock & buskin was pleasant, tho I will not answer for its sincerity. My friends of course were happy in the extreme to welcome the conqueror; & all seem'd happy in my success"; writing that their house is ready for them and they will soon begin to settle into married life; discussing the propriety of considering an engagement in London; saying that he is very busy at present preparing for his upcoming benefit; mentioning that he received a letter of congratulations from his uncle Captain Elliston; saying that he has estimated how much money he will need "to release me from those obligations which you have rightly said might be irksome to me" and that he has decided to ask for the "advance of my father's annuity & 50£s more as a loan"; writing that, with this money, "I shall be quite comfortable, entering into Life with as good expectations as young persons in general do"; sending Elizabeth's love to his uncle and their "united duty & regard" to the Martyns and others.