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Garrick, David, 1717-1779,. Autograph letter signed by David Garrick to Hawkesworth [manuscript], [1759 July 12?] Thursday.

Title: Autograph letter signed by David Garrick to Hawkesworth [manuscript], [1759 July 12?] Thursday.

About Cautherly and his return to school at Bromley. He asks H. to speak to his Master Mr. Booth, to be a little strict with him. Advises him to work up the tale [of Oroonoko?] as highly as he can preparatory to a conference with him.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves.

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The life of Edmund Kean : from published and original sources, extra-illustrated

Title: The life of Edmund Kean : from published and original sources ,extra-illustrated,

Original drawings, autograph letters, playbills, and portraits inserted into FrederickWilliam Hawkins, (London: Tinsley Brothers,1869). The life of Edmund Kean

ArchivalResource: 14 v.

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Southerne, Thomas, 1660-1746. Thomas Southerne letter to Dear sir, 1734 Dec. 25.

Title: Thomas Southerne letter to Dear sir, 1734 Dec. 25.

Southerne writes to Dear sir (W. Duncombe), 25 Dec. 1734, congratulating him on the success of his play, and answering his questions about financial arrangements for plays. Marked as answered, 28 Dec. 1734; also includes markup by a later editor, possibly in the 18th century, identifying it as letter LXXXV.

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

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Garrick, David, 1717-1779,. Autograph letter signed from David Garrick to Dr. Hawkesworth [manuscript], ca. 1757 December.

Title: Autograph letter signed from David Garrick to Dr. Hawkesworth [manuscript], ca. 1757 December.

Asks that he keep Mr. Walpole's book in his own hands so as to prevent any extracts being printed surreptitiously as happened once. Would like him to correct ... the short advertisement he encloses, intended for a new edition of The fatal marriage as altered and now acting upon their theatre.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Mackenzie, Henry, 1745-1831,. Autograph letters signed from Henry Mackenzie to Lord Craig [manuscript], 1774-1806.

Title: Autograph letters signed from Henry Mackenzie to Lord Craig [manuscript], 1774-1806.

Discusses the affairs of The mirror, and several current plays, Wild oats, Isabella, Edwy and Elvina, The wheel of fortune, First love, Pizarro, and The discovery of Vortigern by Ireland (1-30, 32, 35). Also, letters from Mackenzie to Hugh Mackenzie, Craig to Mackenzie and William Dundas to Craig (31, 33-34). Note that the letters were sent to Mackenzie at Craig's death.

ArchivalResource: 35 items.

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Dryden, John, 1631-1700. Autograph letter signed : [London], to William Walsh, [1693] May 9 or 10.

Title: Autograph letter signed : [London], to William Walsh, [1693] May 9 or 10.

Mentioning a lawsuit he is contemplating; commenting on a play by [Thomas] D'Urfey; discussing the political and military situation between England, France, and Holland; describing his work on a new play; mentioning [William] Wycherley, [William] Congreve, and [Thomas] Southerne.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p., with address) ; 29.8 cm.

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Chedworth, John Howe, Baron, 1754-1804. Plots of plays and romances summarized by John Howe Chedworth, 4th baron [manuscript], ca. 1775.

Title: Plots of plays and romances summarized by John Howe Chedworth, 4th baron [manuscript], ca. 1775.

Contains the plots of several non-Shakespearean plays, Ariosto's Orlando furioso and Tasso's Jerusalem delivered and twelve plays of Shakespeare. Very brief summaries of the plots of 15 of Shakespeare's plays, also of plays by William Congreve, Thomas Otway, Thomas Southerne, and Nicholas Rowe and of romances by Tasso and Ariosto. Has no apparent connection with his Notes upon some of the obscure passages in Shakespeare's plays ... 1805.

ArchivalResource: 33 leaves ; 18 x 11.5 cm.

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Hall, Henry, ca. 1656-1707. Collection of sacred and secular songs by late 17th century composers [manuscript], ca. 1710.

Title: Collection of sacred and secular songs by late 17th century composers [manuscript], ca. 1710.

Collection of songs, motets and anthems by late 17th and early 18th century British and Continental composers; copied in the early eighteenth century. Some works attributed but most unattributed. 12-13 staves per page; scored for voices and basso continuo (often with figures) and some works also name string or wind instruments. Musical settings are by Henry Hall, John Blow, [Jeremiah] Clarke, Alessandro Stradella, John Allnott, [Giacomo Carissimi], Daniel Purcell and above all Henry Purcell. Many of the songs were taken from works by John Bancroft, Thomas Betterton, William Congreve, Abraham Cowley, John Crowne, Thomas D'Urfey, John Dryden, John Fletcher, [Anthony?] Henley, Sir Robert Howard, Nathaniel Lee, P.A. Motteux, William Mountfort, Katherine Philips, George Powell, Elkanah Settle, Thomas Shadwell, Shakespeare (The tempest, Twelfth night and Timon of Athens), Thomas Southerne, Sir Richard Steele, and Nahum Tate. Also, at the beginning of Part I, excerpt from The merchant of Venice, two odes on the death of Henry Purcell (one by Dryden), and a few medicinal formularies; at the beginning of Part II, lines by John Gilbert of Christ's College, Cambridge.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. of ms. music ; 33 x 22 cm.

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Albert Stephens Borgman autograph collection, 1600-1950.

Title: Albert Stephens Borgman autograph collection, 1600-1950.

Letters and a few manuscripts of prominent literary figures, statesmen, and politicians from the United States and Europe collected by American professor of English Albert Stephens Borgman.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes (1.3 linear ft.)

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Garrick, David, 1717-1779,. Autograph letter signed from David Garrick, Hampton, to John Hawkesworth [manuscript], 1759? August 14.

Title: Autograph letter signed from David Garrick, Hampton, to John Hawkesworth [manuscript], 1759? August 14.

About the adaptations to Oroonoko (by Thomas Southerne).

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Dryden, John, 1631-1700. Autograph letter signed : [London], to Mrs. Elizabeth Steward, 1700 Apr. 11.

Title: Autograph letter signed : [London], to Mrs. Elizabeth Steward, 1700 Apr. 11.

Discussing his last book of poems; commenting on the opening of Parliament; noting that he and his wife are both in poor health; mentioning [John] Fletcher, [Sir John] Vanbrugh, and [Thomas] Southerne.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p., with address) ; 18.6 cm.

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Garrick, David, 1717-1779,. Autograph letter signed from David Garrick to Hawkesworth [manuscript], [1759 April] 19, Thursday.

Title: Autograph letter signed from David Garrick to Hawkesworth [manuscript], [1759 April] 19, Thursday.

Mrs. Cibber cannot perform in the new play [The orphan of China? by Arthur Murphy]. Cannot put on the masque till the following year. What time would he like best during the next season for Oroonoko?

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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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.

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