BIB_ID
125325
Accession number
MA 9656
Creator
Palmer, John, 1742?-1798.
Display Date
1798 Jul. 18.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 20.4 x 16.8 cm
Notes
Palmer would die on stage in Liverpool two weeks later on August 2nd as he mourned the loss of his wife and a beloved son.
Address panel with traces of a seal and postmark to "Miss Palmer / at M.J. Jones's, Surgeon / opposite Free-Masons Hall / Great Queen Street / London."
Removed from an extra-illustrated volume from the series Dramatic Memoirs (PML 9505-9528).
Address panel with traces of a seal and postmark to "Miss Palmer / at M.J. Jones's, Surgeon / opposite Free-Masons Hall / Great Queen Street / London."
Removed from an extra-illustrated volume from the series Dramatic Memoirs (PML 9505-9528).
Summary
Letting her know he has safely arrived in Liverpool but that he is "exceedingly fatigued;" saying he is "very uneasy about my Dear Rob - I hope in God he is better;" naming several people (possibly children) he was disappointed he did not see he was in London and expressing his hopes that she has written to them; adding "I am too much fatigued to write a long letter - I don't play till tomorrow."
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