David Garrick papers from the Thomas Rackett collection, 1741-1776.
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 33
Image Count:
6
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."
Alternative Title:
Drury Lane Theatre documents
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, and Rackett, Thomas,--1757-1841--Ownership
Subject (Topic):
Actors--England, Theater--England--18th century, and Theater--Great Britain--18th century
David Garrick papers from the Thomas Rackett collection, 1741-1776.
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 41
Image Count:
2
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."
Alternative Title:
Other papers
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):
Garrick, David,--1717-1779, Griffin, William, fl. 1758-1776, and Rackett, Thomas,--1757-1841--Ownership
Subject (Topic):
Actors--England, Theater--England--18th century, and Theater--Great Britain--18th century
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
David Garrick papers from the Thomas Rackett collection, 1741-1776.
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 34
Image Count:
13
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."
Alternative Title:
Drury Lane Theatre documents
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, and Rackett, Thomas,--1757-1841--Ownership
Subject (Topic):
Actors--England, Theater--England--18th century, and Theater--Great Britain--18th century
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of 39 primarily sentimental and occasional poems on such subjects as friendship, death, solitude, nature, and women's beauty, by various authors, including Edward Jerningham, David Garrick, Hannah More, William Hayley, and Hester (Mulso) Chapone. Other poems have been written by Heigham's acquaintances, including several sonnets by Charlotte Smith and an elegy by Mr Hammond. Moreover, the collection contains several theatrical epilogues, including one altered from that written by Richard Sheridan and performed by "Henry Heigham." At the end of the volume, in another hand, is a poem titled On the death of a most indulgent mother by her son.
Description:
Autograph inside front cover: Anne Heigham 1781., Binding: contemporary vellum., and Table of contents at beginning of manuscript.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David,--1717-1779, Hayley, William,--1745-1821, Heigham, Anne, Jerningham, Edward,--1737-1812, More, Hannah,--1745-1833, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley,--1751-1816
Subject (Topic):
Elegiac poetry, English, English poetry--18th century, Occasional poetry, English, Sentimentalism in literature, Theater--Great Britain--18th century, and Women authors
