BIB_ID
411965
Accession number
MA 9539.2
Creator
Hatton, Ann Julia, 1764-1838.
Display Date
1811 February 13.
Credit line
Purchased, 1891.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 24.3 x 19.6 cm
Notes
Hatton gives the place of writing as College Street.
Address panel: "Miss Smith / No. 5. Westmorland Street / Dublin."
Part of a collection of four letters written by Ann Julia Hatton in the winter and spring of 1811 to Miss Smith in Dublin. Each item has been described in an individual catalog record.
Hatton's correspondent may be the British actress Sarah Bartley (1783-1850), who was performing in Dublin during this period under her maiden name of Smith.
Removed from an extra-illustrated volume from the series Dramatic Memoirs (PML 9505-9528).
Address panel: "Miss Smith / No. 5. Westmorland Street / Dublin."
Part of a collection of four letters written by Ann Julia Hatton in the winter and spring of 1811 to Miss Smith in Dublin. Each item has been described in an individual catalog record.
Hatton's correspondent may be the British actress Sarah Bartley (1783-1850), who was performing in Dublin during this period under her maiden name of Smith.
Removed from an extra-illustrated volume from the series Dramatic Memoirs (PML 9505-9528).
Provenance
Purchased from Henry Sotheran & Co., London, 1891.
Summary
Thanking Smith for her letter and the enclosed draft for sixteen pounds, sixteen shillings: "this money will enable me to go on with the work, which but for the assistance it has afforded me, I most certainly must have relinquished -- and it also enables me to preserve that consequence, without which among the mountains of Wales, as well as in more refined parts of the World, merit the most exalted is but a Shadow"; asking Smith to help her get back certain letters from "Daniels the Printer of Carmarthen containing the Estimate for the paper, printing, &c for I am sorry to observe, that I have frequently since my residence among them, discovered a propensity in Taffy, not too honest -- therefore it will be proper that I preserve the documents necessary to bind him to his word"; saying that she has not heard back from her brother John about her melodrama, though he has had it for over a month (see MA 9539.1 for context); adding that she is confident she can make something of it regardless: "for I can work it into a Romance without much trouble, and as Horror is the order of the day, with the addition of a little more of the terrible, it will stand a chance of pleasing the Ghost hunting readers of the age"; discussing the publication and sales of her novel Cambrian Pictures and her plans for a new romance she has almost completed, Chronicles of the Convent; saying that she is sorry to hear that Smith has had problems with her eyes and writing of her own health: "I am one of those nervous creatures that a cloud, more or less, in the sky will affect"; sending her respects and thanks to Mrs. Smith; praising their mutual friend Mr. Rock (possibly Edward Anthony Rock): "I remember him from my days of childhood -- and I remember him with a most affectionate and grateful regard, for even then he gave me that advice, which proved him a man of Honour and principle -- advice, which had my wayward destiny allowed me to follow, I had escaped many weary misfortunes."
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