BIB_ID
411705
Accession number
MA 9513.16
Creator
Elliston, R. W. (Robert William), 1774-1831.
Display Date
1797 May 23.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 23.4 x 18.3 cm
Notes
No place of writing is given on the letter, but based on internal evidence it appears to have been written in Bath.
There is a short note at the end of the letter which appears to be a draft response by William Elliston.
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.
There is a short note at the end of the letter which appears to be a draft response by William Elliston.
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
Announcing the birth of his first child, a daughter: "About 5 this Mor[nin]g Mrs Elliston presented me a daughter under as favourable circumstances as perhaps were ever experienced & I add with much pleasure that she is as well as her situation can possibly admit"; writing that he is concerned about his uncle's health: "indeed I was sensibly affected at your being so low, & cannot but persuade myself you are worse than you confess"; saying that he arrived in Bath from London on Saturday afternoon and has not felt "any thing very disagreeable from my fatigue, tho I assure I do not purpose to repeat it"; asking his uncle to convey the news of the birth and Elizabeth's good health to Mr. and Mrs. Martyn.
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