BIB_ID
411821
Accession number
MA 9522.6
Creator
Elliston, William, 1732-1807.
Display Date
1797 May 27.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 23.2 x 19 cm
Notes
Elliston gives the place of writing as "Sid: Coll:", for Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
Address panel with seal and postmarks: "Robert Elliston Esq / Pultney Street / Bath."
This letter appears to be a response to R. W. Elliston's letter of May 23, 1797. The letter, which is in the Morgan's collection, is cataloged as MA 9513.16.
Docketed.
Part of a collection of twelve letters from William Elliston to his nephew R. W. 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 seal and postmarks: "Robert Elliston Esq / Pultney Street / Bath."
This letter appears to be a response to R. W. Elliston's letter of May 23, 1797. The letter, which is in the Morgan's collection, is cataloged as MA 9513.16.
Docketed.
Part of a collection of twelve letters from William Elliston to his nephew R. W. 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
Congratulating Elliston and his wife on the birth of a child: "May it confirm and strengthen your mutual attachment, and in all its consequences however remote may it add to your happiness"; saying that he communicated the news to "your friends in Frith St" before he left London; adding "I shall conclude that Mrs E continues as well as her friends wish her to be"; sending his respects to Mrs. Rundall.
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