Record ID:
106604
Accession number:
MA 321.44
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description:
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22 cm
Notes:
Signed "Mrs. Dickenson," Mary Hamilton's married name.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Addressed to "Mrs. Garrick / Adelphi Terrace / Strand / London."
Eva Maria Garrick was the wife of actor and playwright David Garrick.
Part of a large collection of letters principally to and from Horatio Nelson; see main record for MA 321 for more information.
Summary:
Hoping she will visit; asking about the authorship of a "series of plays" [possibly the Plays on the Passions by Joanna Baillie]; mentioning Lady Emma Hamilton's conduct at Naples (Sir William Hamilton was Mary Hamilton's uncle).
Provenance:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Pearson in 1901.
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