David Garrick papers from the Thomas Rackett collection
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 6
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Letters, manuscript poems, financial papers, and other documents relating to David Garrick and his tenure as manager of the Drury Lane Theatre. Letters include a lengthy 1751 letter from Richard Berenger describing theaters and operas in Paris; transcripts of two letters from Garrick to Francis Hayman about plans for a series of prints from Shakespeare; and a 1767 letter from the actor Patrick O'Brien discussing his "exiled" life in New York. Manuscript verse consists of drafts of several prologues and epilogues, and copies of comic epigrams and songs. Other papers include a record of receipts for the first season of Drury Lane; "A Scheme for a Theatrical Society;" a list of characters performed by Garrick in 1741-42; and a copy of "Mr. Taylor's address to young students and lovers of landscape painting."
Description:
David Garrick (1717-1779) was the most celebrated Shakespearean actor of his time and the successful manager of the Drury Lane Theatre for almost three decades. and Thomas Rackett (1755-1840) received his MA from University College, Oxford in 1780 and named rector of Spetisbury in Dorset shortly after; he held the living until his death in 1840. Rackett devoted much time to his antiquarian interests; he was a member of the Linnean Society, the Royal Society, and the Society of Antiquaries, and contributed several drawings to John Hutchins's History of Dorset. He died at Spetisbury in November of 1840.
Subject (Name):
Drury Lane Theatre, Garrick, David,--1717-1779, Hayman, F.--(Francis),--1708-1776, and Rackett, Thomas,--1757-1841--Ownership
Subject (Topic):
Actors--England, Landscape painting, English, Theater--England--18th century, Theater--Great Britain--18th century, and Theatrical managers--England
Collection of English verse, epitaphs, copies of letters, and descriptions of voyages to Germany; contents include: "A Journey to Duderstadt, with a description of the Ceremony of The Nuns taking The Veil, as performed there, ... Sunday 13th June: 1751".
Description:
Anonymous manuscript. and Binding: contemporary vellum, without title.
Text of a letter written by the Jewish false Messiah Shabbetai Tzevi in the summer of 1666 and copied by the Doenmeh (or Dönme) sect. According to the scholar Yaron Ben-Naʾeh, this copy was probably written around 1800. In this previously unknown letter,
Publisher:
s.n.,
Subject (Name):
Shabbethai Tzevi,--1626-1676 and שבתי צבי,--1626-1676
