Letter from Maria Macklin, London, to Charles Macklin, Dublin, 6 May 1772 [manuscript].
1772
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Title
Letter from Maria Macklin, London, to Charles Macklin, Dublin, 6 May 1772 [manuscript].
Created/published
England, 6 May 1772.
Description
1 item ; 19 x 30 cm
Associated name
Macklin, Maria, 1733-1781, sender.
Macklin, Charles, approximately 1697-1797, addressee.
Macklin, Charles, approximately 1697-1797, addressee.
Note
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Genre/form
Letters (correspondence)
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
FAST ACC 271958 (folio)
Folger-specific note
From dealer's description: "The actress Maria Macklin (1733-1781) writes from London 6 May 1772 to her father in Dublin, the prominent actor and playwright Charles Macklin (1699-1797), offering an account of a performance for her benefit at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, of his popular satirical comedy Love-à-la-mode (1758). She records her feelings during the performance and the responses of the audience, mentioning other actors, the manager at Covent Garden George Colman the elder (1732-1794), and providing a summary of the financial accounts for the evening: "I flatter'd myself that I was very like you while I was mustering my troops & I asure you I was not a little proud of it. However the farce went off very well. At the beginning there were some people in the house who ... had a mind to hiss. They came to see the farce murder'd and to damn it. But they were fairly disappointed ... Fox was much superior to Shuter all thro' the song he sung with great humour & was encor'd in it ... I trembled at first till the audience brighten'd up ... I kept my spirits up amazingly & indeed neither the balcney of the house not all the plagues I had were half so affecting as the thoughts of your being ill ... in all this trouble there was not a manager to be seen. Coleman is at Bath & has been for near two months ... " A rare example of a lengthy letter by a well-known eighteenth century actress, this is an excellent example of eighteenth century theatrical correspondence. The Folger Shakespeare Library holds 3 letters penned by Maria Macklin to her father, also in 1772 (Y.c.5381 (1-3))."|Ordered from Samuel Gedge, D9378, 2019-12-16, Catalogue 29, item 18.