Autograph letters signed from David Garrick to George Steevens, Hampstead [manuscript], 1773 December 6-1775? January 10.

8 v.

Concerns Steevens' research for the proposed edition of Shakespeare's works by himself and Johnson. Several refer to Steevens' borrowing of Garrick's collection of old plays and their correspondence with contemporary commentators, e.g. a Mr. Swan of York, and Brome a "descendant of the famous author Alexander Brome; Shakespeare gave the first edition of Surrey's Poems to one of his ancestors living in Warwickshire; Brome sent to me and I lent it to Dr. Percy," (W.a.180). In W.a.186 he asks if he has ever thought of any play unrevived in Shakespeare that would bring credit to "us" well decorated and carefully got up? - Richard II? He had revived Anthony and Cleopatra, but he had grown tired and given it up ...

W.a.182 is accompanied by a letter from J.O. Halliwell November 23, 1863, and was once in his collection.

Formerly Folger MSS A.a.7, A.a.2, A.a.6, A.a.9, A.a.3, A.a.5, A.a.4, A.a.8.

Little & Kahrl. Letters of David Garrick, 808, 814, 819, 848-849, 868, 870, 885

Great Britain -- England -- London.

W.a.179-186

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