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Society of the Friends of the People (Great Britain). Declaration or manifesto, 1792 Apr 11.

Title: Declaration or manifesto, 1792 Apr 11.

Manuscript, in a single hand, dated April 11, 1792 at the Freemason's Tavern, declaring the purpose of the institution of the Society of Friends. The document announces its intention to secure the freedom of election and more equal representation in Parliament, as well as to secure for the people a more frequent exercise of their right to elect their representatives. The declaration is followed by approximately 160 signatures, including those of Philip Francis, Charles Grey, James Maitland Lord Lauderdale, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Several signatures have been crossed out, with the letter D written next to their names.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; 43 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702185416 View

Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797. Letter : [London], to Bertie Greathe[e]d, 1796 Feb 22.

Title: Letter : [London], to Bertie Greathe[e]d, 1796 Feb 22.

Walpole writes to his friend, dramatist Bertie Greatheed Senior, praising in the most laudable terms four drawings made by Bertie Greatheed Junior illustrating four scenes in Walpole's The Castle of Otranto. He refers specifically to the portrayal of the ghost in the chapel and to Manfred in the last scene and praises the young man's work as showing "real genius."

ArchivalResource: 1 items ([2] p.) ; 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702182030 View

Hester Lynch Piozzi correspondence, 1769-1820.

Title: Hester Lynch Piozzi correspondence, 1769-1820.

Collected letters sent and received by author Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1.5 linear ft.)

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Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823. Autograph manuscript of Kemble's parts in 34 plays in the hand of John Philip Kemble [manuscript], 1783-1805.

Title: Autograph manuscript of Kemble's parts in 34 plays in the hand of John Philip Kemble [manuscript], 1783-1805.

On all but nine of the parts he has noted the theater at which the production opened (23 Drury Lane, 1 Covent Garden, 1 Haymarket); with the date of first performance (23 Nov. 1783 to 29 May 1799) on 22 he has noted the date of first performance (Nov. 23, 1783, to May 29, 1799); on five he has noted the date of a second production at Covent Garden (Nov. 17, 1803, to Oct. 25, 1805). Ten are Shakespeare plays: T.a.11 Macbeth (D.L. Mar. 31, 1785), T.a.13 Richard III (no theater or date), T.a.17 King Lear (D.L. Jan. 21, 1788), T.a. 23 Coriolanus (no theater or date), T.a.25 King John (D.L. Dec. 10, 1783), T.a.30 Merchant of Venice (D.L. Jan. 22, 1784), T.a.34 Much ado about nothing (D.L. Apr. 30, 1788), T.a.35 Measure for measure (D.L., no date), T.a.38 Henry V (no theater or date), T.a.39 As you like it (D.L. Feb. 14, 1799; C.G. Oct. 25, 1805). Two others are Elizabethan plays: Massinger's Roman Actor (T.a.29) and Fletcher's Rule a wife (T.a.20). The remaining 22 are Restoration or 18th-century plays: Mrs. Centlivre's The wonder (T.a.40), Colman's Mountaineers (T.a.18), Congreve's Double dealer (T.a.8), Love for love (T.a.24) and Mourning bride, (T.a.31), Cumberland's Wheel of fortune (T.a.16), Greatheed's The regent (T.a.33), Hartson's Countess of Salisbury (T.a.36), Kotzebue's The Stranger (T.a.37) and Pizzarro (T.a.41), Lee's Alexander the great (T.a.10) and Theodosius (T.a.26), Moore's The Gamester (T.a.28) Murphy's Grecian daughter (T.a.27), Otway's Venice preserved (T.a.12), Philip's Distressed mother (T.a.21), Rowe's Fair penitent (T.a.32) and Tamerlane (T.a.22), Southerne's Isabella, or, The fatal marriage, adapted by Garrick (T.a.19), Vanbrugh and Cibber's Provoked husband (T.a.14), Wycherley's Plain dealer (T.a.9) and Young's The revenge (T.a.15).

ArchivalResource: 34 v. ; 22.5 x 18 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263097794 View

Cator, John, 1728-1806. Answers to the complaints of Hester Lynch Piozzi and Cecelia Thrale : manuscript, 1792-1793.

Title: Answers to the complaints of Hester Lynch Piozzi and Cecelia Thrale : manuscript, 1792-1793.

The first volume is Cator's 1792 Oct. 18 response to a complaint by Thrale's widow Hester Lynch Piozzi and her second husband Gabriele Mario Piozzi, in which they alleged that he had provided them with incomplete and inaccurate information concerning the estate. In the response, Cator provides a detailed narrative of his handling of the Thrale estate, including transcripts of a release from the Piozzis to Cator dated 1787 May 3 (pp. 62-67) and a related schedule of accounts (pp. 91-99). It is signed by Cator on p. 90, by witness Edward Montagu (p. 1), and by James Trower (transcriber?) (p. 90). The second volume is Cator's 1793 Nov. 21 response (with fellow executor Jeremiah Crutchley) to a complaint from Henry Thrale's youngest daughter Cecilia (later Cecilia Mostyn), then a minor, filed by her advisor Bertie Greatheed. In the response, Cator expands on his narrative of his handling of the Thrale estate, including transcripts of schedule of accounts through 1785 Sept. (pp. 130-169), June 1787 (pp. 170-185), 1792 July (pp. 186-206), 1793 Mar. (pp. 206-212), and 1793 Aug. (pp. 213-237). It is signed by Cator and Crutchley on p. 129, by witness John Ord (p. 1), and by James Trower (transcriber?) (p. 129). A payment from the estate to "Gabriel Piozzi, music master" is listed on p. 142.

ArchivalResource: 2 v. (99, 237 leaves) ; 41 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612852214 View

Bertie Greatheed papers, 1785-1819

Title: Bertie Greatheed papers 1785-1819

Correspondence, printed ephemera, and clippings regarding Greatheed's play, "The Regent." Also includes poetry by Greatheed and others, such as Robert Merry and William Parsons. There is one letter from Thomas King detailing his comments on the prologue to Greatheed's play.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 4 (incl. 1 oversize box); Other Storage Formats: 3 broadsides; Linear Feet: 2.3'

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.great View