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

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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.

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Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797

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Garrick, David, 1717-1779

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Southerne, Thomas, 1660-1746

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Hawkesworth, John, 1715?-1773

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