BIB_ID
411711
Accession number
MA 9513.19
Creator
Elliston, R. W. (Robert William), 1774-1831.
Display Date
1801 February 19.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 22.9 x 18.2 cm
Notes
The place of writing has been inferred from the postmark.
Address panel with postmarks: "Rev'd Dr Elliston / Sidney College / Cambridge."
There is an extensive note at the end of the letter which appears to be in William Elliston's hand; it may have been the draft of a response. Part of this text has been cut away.
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.
Address panel with postmarks: "Rev'd Dr Elliston / Sidney College / Cambridge."
There is an extensive note at the end of the letter which appears to be in William Elliston's hand; it may have been the draft of a response. Part of this text has been cut away.
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 a trial has gone against him and he has had to pay £50 damages "for thrashing a rascal"; writing that his uncle's last letter gave him and his wife Elizabeth concern: "there appears an air of dissatisfaction & gloom about you which I would willingly dispel if it be in my power"; urging his uncle to write further and to confide in him, if he likes; assuring him that anything he says will be kept secret and responding in kind "I have no secret idea with me that you should not share"; commenting "I declare to you I find the world so strange that I believe I shall organize myself anew"; including a quotation about the power of fear; continuing "I am determined therefore to be steady & determinedly [fited] on all those points which justice & propriety countenance, looking to my mind for support, & to my conscience for comfort"; concluding "I trust you do not think I write too freely to you, if I have understood you rightly sincerity is the best medium to gain an introduction to your [attention]."
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