Richard Cumberland manuscript material : 1 item ca. 1800

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Richard Cumberland manuscript material : 1 item ca. 1800

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Richard Cumberland, English playwright and novelist. To "my dear friend" : 1 autograph letter signed : ca. 1800 : (MISC 0972) : explaining that he is detained, tending to his wife's grave illness. Mrs. Cumberland died shortly after 1800.

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The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.

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Cumberland, Richard, 1732-1811

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Richard Cumberland was an author, best known as a dramatist and for his memoirs. Born at Trinity College, his father was a clergyman and his mother was the daughter of scholar Richard Bentley, then master of Trinity. He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College at Oxford, and devoted himself to a life of literature. While serving a number of government posts, he continued his studies, and wrote and translated numerous works. He wrote prose and poetry, but was most successful as a pl...