BIB_ID
411589
Accession number
MA 9513.9
Creator
Elliston, R. W. (Robert William), 1774-1831.
Display Date
1796 [July] 21.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 23 x 18.7 cm
Notes
Place and month of writing taken from the postmarks and docket.
Address panel with mostly intact seal and postmarks: "Rev'd Dr Elliston / No 53 Frith St. Soho / London."
Docketed.
The edition of Shakespeare referred to in the letter was produced by the scholar George Steevens.
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.
Address panel with mostly intact seal and postmarks: "Rev'd Dr Elliston / No 53 Frith St. Soho / London."
Docketed.
The edition of Shakespeare referred to in the letter was produced by the scholar George Steevens.
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 his benefit in Bristol brought in over ninety pounds: "you safely therefore congratulated me on my success, & it exceeded my utmost expectations"; writing that this will help him realize the plan they had discussed earlier; saying that his uncle's advice has convinced him of "the propriety of keeping a regular cash account which I have accordingly set about"; discussing finances; conveying thanks from his wife Elizabeth for a book and saying that she "shall be careful that her sister experiences a benefit from it"; writing "Mr Colman insists on my being equal to Hamlet, I have therefore sent for Stevens's last edition of Shakespeare, & am setting about it"; asking if they will be in London at the same time.
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