Research Catalog

Title

Benjamin Wrench manuscript material.

Author

Wrench, Benjamin, 1778-1843.

Publication

circa 1811-1824

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Details

Additional Authors

Mathews, Mrs. (Anne Jackson), 1782?-1869

Summary

· To Anne Jackson Mathews, wife of the comedian Charles Mathews : 6 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Sunday morn.g" [watermark = 1811] : (MISC 4494) : 1 page (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, "I am this morning obliged to go to Pentonville . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Monday morn.g" [watermark = 1818] : (MISC 4495) : 3 pages (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, "It was my design to have had the pleasure of coming to you today . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Thursday" [watermark = 1818] : (MISC 4496) : 2 pages (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, "I have hastily read Frankenstein which I return with many thanks." -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Tuesday morn.g"-"Thursday 4 o'clock" [1824] : (MISC 4497) : 3 + 3 pages (2 double sheets) : [no place] : begins, "'Your kindness is register'd where every day I turn the leaf to read it' but I am indeed too much indisposed to visit you today." The second double sheet is possibly a postscript; begins, "It is usually said of Watchmen that they give the alarm when the danger of the moment is over!" Docketed with a date of 1824. -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Sunday Eve" : (MISC 4498) : 3 pages (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, "It was my intention to have had the pleasure of personally acknowledging your very kind note . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Wednesday" : (MISC 4499) : 2 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, "The enclosed is for your perusal in the absence of Mathews, by which you will perceive my goings on."

Subjects

• Wrench, Benjamin, 1778-1843 > Correspondence
• Actors > Great Britain > 19th century > Correspondence

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Biography (note)

• Benjamin Ellis Wrench, English actor.

Call Number

Pforz MS

OCLC

1198466564

Author

Wrench, Benjamin, 1778-1843.

Title

Benjamin Wrench manuscript material.

Production

circa 1811-1824

Access

Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Biography

Benjamin Ellis Wrench, English actor.

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Added Author

Mathews, Mrs. (Anne Jackson), 1782?-1869, addressee.

Research Call Number

Pforz MS