- Published / Created:
- 1741-42
- Call Number:
- OSB MSS 125
- Collection Title:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Characters performed by David Garrick, Esq. at the Theatre in Goodman's Fields
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- Published / Created:
- 1768 December 3
- Call Number:
- OSB MSS 125
- Collection Title:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Inventory of books purchased by David Garrick from William Griffin
- Creator:
- Garrick, David, 1717-1779
- Published / Created:
- 1746 August, Undated
- Call Number:
- OSB MSS 125
- Collection Title:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Two letters [transcripts] to Frank Hayman about subject for pictures from Shakespeare
- Published / Created:
- 1746 September-May
- Call Number:
- OSB MSS 125
- Collection Title:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Volume of receipts for first season at Drury Lane
- Creator:
- Heigham, Anne
- Published / Created:
- 1781-ca. 1785
- Call Number:
- Osborn c130
- Image Count:
- 4
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book], 1781-ca. 1785.