BIB_ID
411841
Accession number
MA 13971.4
Creator
Davies, Scrope Berdmore, 1782-1852.
Display Date
[between 1844 and 1852]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 18.9 x 13.6 cm
Notes
Baroness Blaze de Bury married and assumed her title in 1844; Davies died in 1852.
Addressed, with seal, "À Madame / Le Baronne Blaze de Bury / Rue neuve Luxembourg / 18-."
One of a series of 6 letters written by Scrope Berdmore Davies to Baroness Blaze de Bury which previously formed part of the Morgan Library & Museum's Blaze de Bury Collection (MA 14300).
Addressed, with seal, "À Madame / Le Baronne Blaze de Bury / Rue neuve Luxembourg / 18-."
One of a series of 6 letters written by Scrope Berdmore Davies to Baroness Blaze de Bury which previously formed part of the Morgan Library & Museum's Blaze de Bury Collection (MA 14300).
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Concerning his ill health and the acting of William Macready, who he has never actually seen in performance ("From all that I have been able to learn from those whose opinion to me is almost a matter of faith, I should think Mcready is, as Byron said of [Port...?], the 'sublime of medocrity.'"); with a related condemnation of "prudence" as an "old womanly" or "grovelling" virtue; offering to assist her in any he can in her "remarks" on Othello.
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