BIB_ID
411825
Accession number
MA 9522.8
Creator
Elliston, William, 1732-1807.
Display Date
1797 August [1].
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 24.8 x 20.5 cm
Notes
The day of writing is not clearly identifiable; it may be the 1st or, based on the postmark, the 20th.
Elliston gives the place of writing as "Sid: Coll:", for Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
Address panel with postmarks: "Robert Elliston Esq / No 3 Frith Street / Soho / London."
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.
Elliston gives the place of writing as "Sid: Coll:", for Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
Address panel with postmarks: "Robert Elliston Esq / No 3 Frith Street / Soho / London."
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
Discoursing on the subject of correspondence; writing that he is "happy to learn there is so much good health industry and contentment in your little family -- This is either happiness or something so much like it, that it must be a good wish & I am sure it is a fervent one, when I write Esto perpetua"; saying that "your Aunt & the Professor" will be visiting him soon; chiding him: "you must allow me to point out an omission on your part, as a man of business at least. Your Bro[the]r mentioned to me your application to your Uncle for some pecuniary assistance which you received immediately -- Did you not know that it is usual to acknowledge the receipt of a Draught the first opportunity?"; advising him on financial matters to "let your Haymarket Harvest be housed in the Bank"; saying that his good reception in his second season at the Little Theatre is "another pleasing piece of intelligence"; advising "industry & œconomy," rather than a dependence on fortune's favors.
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