Theater -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.

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Poetry, riddles, etc,

Manuscript volume, mainly of poetry, riddles and word puzzles, 1773, 1800-1801. Some of the verses have theatrical associations and include To David Garrick esq. Upon Meeting him at Mr Rigby 's House in the Country by C. Austen and Garrick 's Answer; a dramatic poem, Prologue for Venice Preserved by Richard Cumberland, Epilogue to Venice Preserved by William Hanbury and a further Epilogue by Cumberland, performed at Kelmarsh, 1773. Other works comprise a memorial to Rev. Samuel Love, a minor canon of Bristol Cathedral, 1773, and his lines to a robin residing in the cathedral; a copy of Beddgelert [by William Robert Spencer], dated at Dolymelynllyn, 1800; and poems written at Porkington by John Kynaston, 1801. The volume also contains a copy of the retort of George Nugent Reynolds, former justice for Leitrim, to the Earl of Clare, following his dismissal from the Commission of the Peace.

Cumberland, Richard, 1732-1811.