Autograph letter : London, to "my dear Kitty" [Catherine Fourmantel], [1760] May [i.e., Mar.] 8.

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Autograph letter : London, to "my dear Kitty" [Catherine Fourmantel], [1760] May [i.e., Mar.] 8.

Reporting that he has arrived [in London] safe and sound "except for the Hole in my heart, which you have made." Remarking that he has had the greatest honors paid to him and is "engaged allready to ten Noble men & men of fashion to dine" and that Garrick has offered him theater boxes and "undertaken the whole Management of the Booksellers, & will procure me a great price." Assuring her that he misses her and wishing, as he sits alone in his bedchamber at ten o'clock at night, that he could squeeze her hand. Remarking "I send my soul perpetually out to see what you are doing -- wish I could convey my body with it."

1 item (3 p., with address) ; 20 cm

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