BIB_ID
411823
Accession number
MA 9522.7
Creator
Elliston, William, 1732-1807.
Display Date
1797 June 2.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 23.3 x 18.9 cm
Notes
Elliston gives the place of writing as "Sid: Coll:", for Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He also notes that he is writing the letter on "Friday Eveng past 10."
Address panel with seal: "Robert Elliston Esq / Pultney Street / Bath."
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: "Robert Elliston Esq / Pultney Street / Bath."
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
Saying that "[m]y congratulations on Miss Elliston's debut upon the grand Theatre in which we are all players, must have crossed Mr Rundall on the road"; writing that he has been very busy since he returned to Cambridge; saying that he intended to send them a letter this evening, "but the weather kept me out beyond the hour"; adding, however, that a Fellow is going into town in the morning with this letter, and so he'll "gain two days in conveying a repetition of my wishes for your Wifes safe recovery, & my willingness to be one of the Sponsors for your Daughter"; saying that Elliston may end up doubting the prudence of that choice, "when you consider, that probably before the Damsel will be able to answer what is your name and who gave it, I may not be found to put the questions"; sending his love to Elizabeth; adding in a postscript that he will be in London again soon and will aim to meet with Mr. Rundall then.
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