Autograph letter signed from David Garrick, White Horse, Towcester, to Lord Lyttelton [manuscript], 1771 August 26 Sunday.

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Autograph letter signed from David Garrick, White Horse, Towcester, to Lord Lyttelton [manuscript], 1771 August 26 Sunday.

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After acknowledging his and Pod Pad's (Lyttelton's nickname for Mrs. Garrick) week at the sweetest place in England, he apologizes for taking away a volume of Dodsley's Miscellanie by mistake instead of another which he had borrowed from a friend and which Mrs. Montagu took to read. "I am writing with the nail of my little finger the pens are so bad ... "

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Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764

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Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773

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Lyttelton was an English Whig statesman and writer. Montagu (1720-1800) was an English writer and one of the first Bluestockings. From the description of Baron George Lyttelton letters to Elizabeth Robinson Montagu, 1756-1783. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612761573 From the guide to the Baron George Lyttelton letters to Elizabeth Robinson Montagu, 1756-1783., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyt...

Montagu, Mrs. (Elizabeth), 1718-1800

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Elizabeth Montagu, née Robinson, English author and literary hostess. From the guide to the Elizabeth Montagu manuscript material : 1 item, ca. mid-18th century, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Elizabeth Robinson Montagu, an author and literary hostess, was a central figure in London's Bluestocking circle, and a friend of Samuel Johnson. Her best-known work was 1769's anonymously published An Essay on the Writings and ...

Garrick, David, 1717-1779

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David Garrick was raised in Lichfield, England, and became a leading actor, playwright and theatrical producer in London. From 1747 to 1776, he was a partner in the Drury Lane Theatre. From the description of Papers, 1749-1778. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 85213417 David Garrick, English actor and playwright. Garrick frequently invested in land, and in 1756 he bought a large estate in Hendon, northwest of London. There is no evidence that Garrick ever lived at H...