BIB_ID
411833
Accession number
MA 9522.12
Creator
Elliston, William, 1732-1807.
Display Date
1804 June 24.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 22.8 x 18.7 cm
Notes
Elliston gives the place of writing as "Sid Coll", for Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
Address panel with wafer and postmark: "Robert W. Elliston Esq / Theatre / Haymarket / London."
This letter is a response to R. W. Elliston's letter of June 21, 1804. The letter, which is in the Morgan's collection, is cataloged as MA 9513.20.
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 wafer and postmark: "Robert W. Elliston Esq / Theatre / Haymarket / London."
This letter is a response to R. W. Elliston's letter of June 21, 1804. The letter, which is in the Morgan's collection, is cataloged as MA 9513.20.
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 prospect of his nephew buying a house in Polsted to keep his mother's brother Mr. Smith from being turned out of it; reminding Elliston that Smith has only asked him for assistance and suggesting that he advance part, but not all, of the purchase money; saying that "in my opinion you yield much too easily to the solicitations both of those who have some claims upon you and of those who have none: and I am persuaded you will concur with me in this opinion a few years hence"; continuing "I will only observe, that had I been consulted on the terms of your engagement with Colman, you would not have been in hot water, in such hot weather [a paraphrase of a line in MA 9513.20]. If he uses you unjustly, punish the delinquent -- if only unkindly, chastise yourself for putting it in his powers to treat you so"; mentioning upcoming trips to Suffolk and London, but saying "every day I find myself less & less inclined to move; and I am likely soon to become a fixture"; sending his "affectionate regards" to Elizabeth.
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