Autograph letter signed from David Garrick to Mr. Fermingnac, New Broadstreet [manuscript], [1741 October 20?] Tuesday morning.

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Autograph letter signed from David Garrick to Mr. Fermingnac, New Broadstreet [manuscript], [1741 October 20?] Tuesday morning.

"I suppose you must have heard by this time of my playing King Richard at Goodman's Fields and suppose you are apprehensive I design to continue on the stage"; a statement he goes on to corroborate.

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Folger Shakespeare Library

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