BIB_ID
411714
Accession number
MA 9513.20
Creator
Elliston, R. W. (Robert William), 1774-1831.
Display Date
1804 June 21.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 22.6 x 18.4 cm
Notes
No place of writing is given on the letter, but based on internal evidence it appears to have been written in London.
Address panel with postmark: "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.
Address panel with postmark: "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.
Summary
Thanking his uncle for his politeness to a Mrs. Rawlinson, who had paid a visit to Cambridge; informing him about a matter concerning his mother's brother, Mr. Smith; saying that the house Smith lives in is going to be sold and Smith may be turned out; asking for his uncle's advice on the idea of purchasing the house; saying that his wife Elizabeth arrived in town last Sunday: "she is in good spirits, but getting rather cumbersome. The children were all well when she left Bath"; writing of himself and his career: "I am fagging through the hot weather & am in hot water at the same time. Colman uses me unjust[ly] & unkindly, & I have told him as mu[ch]. I scarely know what to make of him"; adding in a postscript that he has taken apartments in Rupert Street, Covent Garden, that he is furnishing them and that they will be ready in a fortnight.
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