BIB_ID
411831
Accession number
MA 9522.11
Creator
Elliston, William, 1732-1807.
Display Date
1803 February 16.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 20.2 x 16.1 cm
Notes
Elliston gives the place of writing as "S. C.", which may stand for Sidney College in Cambridge.
Address panel with seal: "Robt. W. Elliston Esq / 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: "Robt. W. Elliston Esq / 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
Discussing the sending of a "new year's mite"; writing about the conclusion of a lawsuit between his nephew and Miss Fleming: "I understand from that Gentleman [Mr. Forman], the expense of the whole transaction between you and Miss Fleming is to be defrayed by you both equally; and it seemed right to him as well as myself that the charge of my Attorney, carriage of [panels? parcels?] &c should enter into his bill"; adding that he has asked Mr. Forman to pay those charges into Elliston's hands on his account, "and I mean it to be considered as a Christmas gift to my God Daughter"; urging him to a "continuance of your exertions to benefit your wife & children, accompanied by so much attention to œconomy that your acquisitions may not make themselves wings and fly away."
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