Autograph letter signed (draft) from David Garrick, [Mistly], Essex, to Hannah More [manuscript], 1778 July 9.

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Has been distressed about the complications connected with his nephew's [David's] marriage. Had she heard the report that Mrs. Garrick and he were separated? Mentions a paragraph on Percy in the Morning Chronicle. The Haymarket goes on but heavily. Colman is preparing The suicide. He himself has written a copy of verses to Mr. Baldwin ... upon his attack on him in the House of Commons.

A number of lines and sections have been or once were deleted by a later hand, including the date which was erroneously changed to 1777. Garrick's nephew David and Emma Hart's marriage settlement is dated July 21, 1778 (see Z.c.12(19))

Portions of a very similar letter are published in William Roberts' Memoirs of the life and correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More, 1834, I, p. 118. Date given 1777.

Little & Kahrl. Letters of David Garrick, 1184

Great Britain -- England -- Mistley.

W.b.472, p. 109-111