SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley, letters, autographs, documents, manuscripts


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SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816). Playwright and politician.
Characteristic brief Autograph Letter Signed ('RBS') to an unnamed correspondent (no salutation), 1 page small 4to, 'Friday', no date.
'You are a pretty Fellow. How well you met me in George Street when I returned from Fulham on purpose - will you & P Moore dine here or somewhere tomorrow / ever yours / RBS'


Sheridan may be here referring to Peter Moore, the chairman of Sheridan's committee during his candidacy for the parliamentary seat of Westminster, and who had decided on 7 November 1806 that the public should be invited to subscribe to the cost. (See The Letters of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, ed. Cecil Price, 3 vols. Oxford 1966, ii, 297n.

Provenance: from a collection formed by A.M. Broadley in 1903.
[No: 24716]

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