Autograph letter signed from Richard Cumberland, Tunbridge Wells, to unidentified recipient [manuscript], 1803 October 11.

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Autograph letter signed from Richard Cumberland, Tunbridge Wells, to unidentified recipient [manuscript], 1803 October 11.

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Letter of recommendation on behalf of Mr. Thomas Younger of Mrs. Baker's Company of Comedians. He too was disappointed not to be seeing the recipient on the stage of the Drury. He has finished a comedy which he wrote with the recipient in mind and which he is prepared to devote to him on the Bath stage rather than sent it to Drury.

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Younger, Thomas, fl. 1803

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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...