Autograph letter signed from Richard Cumberland to unidentified recipient [manuscript], 1802? February 10.

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Autograph letter signed from Richard Cumberland to unidentified recipient [manuscript], 1802? February 10.

His grandson Cavendish was amongst the crew that perished in the Babet (November 1801).

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SNAC Resource ID: 8082263

Folger Shakespeare Library

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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...