Autograph Letter Signed from David Garrick, Adelphi, to Hester Thrale

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Assures Mrs. Thrale of his conviction that he will not return to the professional stage ("there can never be any inducement for me to leave my present freedom & happiness, to strut & fret my hour again") and describes his recent reading of Lethe before the King and Queen.

Autograph Letter Signed from David Garrick, Adelphi, to Hester Thrale

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Assures Mrs. Thrale of his conviction that he will not return to the professional stage ("there can never be any inducement for me to leave my present freedom & happiness, to strut & fret my hour again") and describes his recent reading of Lethe before the King and Queen.

Autograph Letter Signed from David Garrick, the Adelphi, to Mrs. Necker

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Description: Garrick writes to say that he will be performing the character of Hamlet the following day and has taken care to place Mrs Necker in the most commodious box. He also gives a summary of his alterations to the play.

Autograph Letter Signed from Thomas Holcroft to David Garrick, Adelphi

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Autograph Letter Signed from David Garrick, the Adelphi, to Morellet, 1773 [December] 4

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Description: Garrick writes that he has dared to alter Hamlet and met with applause, and declares that King Lear and Macbeth are to take their turns next. He expresses his hope that Mr. La Harpe will change his opinions of Shakespeare and comments that he considers Mr. Clement's letter to Voltaire to be wretched.

Autograph Letter (draft) from David Garrick, the Adelphi, to Lady Denbigh

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Did not realize she would be wanting to know that he was playing that night.

Autograph Letter Initialed by Henry Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, to David Garrick, Adelphi

Autograph Letter Initialed by Henry Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, to David Garrick, Adelphi PDF Author:
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He writes that the best thing he can do is divulge his correspondence. "My vanity at least will be satisfied thereby, for it will prove how much I was right and you wrong."

Letter from Mr [David] and Mrs Garrick to Mr and Mrs [Hester Lynch] Thrale [i.e. Hester Lynch Piozzi].

Letter from Mr [David] and Mrs Garrick to Mr and Mrs [Hester Lynch] Thrale [i.e. Hester Lynch Piozzi]. PDF Author: David Garrick
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Autograph Letters Signed from David Garrick, the Adelphi, to George Steevens, Hampstead

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Concerns Steevens' research for the proposed edition of Shakespeare's works by himself and Johnson. Several refer to Steevens' borrowing of Garrick's collection of old plays and their correspondence with contemporary commentators, e.g. a Mr. Swan of York, and Brome a "descendant of the famous author Alexander Brome; Shakespeare gave the first edition of Surrey's Poems to one of his ancestors living in Warwickshire; Brome sent to me and I lent it to Dr. Percy," (W.a.180). In W.a.186 he asks if he has ever thought of any play unrevived in Shakespeare that would bring credit to "us" well decorated and carefully got up? - Richard II? He had revived Anthony and Cleopatra, but he had grown tired and given it up ...

Autograph Letter Signed from Harold Carter to David Garrick

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About some land which he rented from Garrick.

Autograph Letter Signed from George Hardinge, London, to [David] Garrick

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Asks Garrick for suggestions for his trip to France and Switzerland, and for letters of introduction.