BIB_ID
411981
Accession number
MA 9539.4
Creator
Hatton, Ann Julia, 1764-1838.
Display Date
1811 May 29.
Credit line
Purchased, 1891.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 22.6 x 18.1 cm
Notes
Hatton gives the place of writing as College Street.
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).
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
Saying that, "after incredible difficulties and disappointments," her new book of poetry will be ready for delivery in June; adding that it is being printed in Waterford by Mr. Bull and that "the work has been revised the press corrected by a Mr Marshall a Clergyman, and a Gentleman of genius and talent -- the poetry has been most highly spoken of, and recommended in the Waterford Chronicle, so highly that I fear the Subscribers will feel disappointed when they read the work"; thanking Smith for her "generous exertions in my favour at a moment when I began to despair of the power to publish"; asking her how many copies she would like to receive; sending her respects to Mrs. Smith; saying that she has had "so bad a sore throat that I trembled on the verge of eternity. But am again about, though severely plagued with what I verily believe is gout flying about me"; asking after their mutual friend Mr. Rock (possibly Edward Anthony Rock); informing her that she has had "a most unsatisfactory reply from Mr Kemble respecting my Melo Drama in which he tells me it is not yet decided whether it can be received at Covent Garden or not -- I have however decided the affair in my own mind -- and am most happy in never having encouraged hope on the business -- if I had bitter indeed would have been my disappointment."
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