Three Autograph Letters and Notes Signed "T Dibdin" (x 2) and "T D", to unnamed correspondents (x 2) and "J. Russell"

Author: 
Thomas John Dibdin, dramatist.
Publication details: 
No place or date (x 2), the other headed "A.M. Sep 25" to which another hand has added 1835.
£200.00
SKU: 4859

Total 4pp., 8vo, two laid down on a page, with minor defects and texts complete, tending towards the illegible, the other with bottom of page torn off with some textual loss, again tending towards the illegible. In one he asks his correspondent to take up a bill (of exchange) that day "which I miscalculated for Monday" next - it will materially serve me without injuring you". In the next letter ([1835]), hard to read but he appeqars to be talking money with someone in need, money he would supply before his Benefit and institute a transaction involving "Mr Peake". "After this week every night is a public or private Benefit at the Haymarket. In the final letter, he mentions being ill all night and his writing in bed all day. He is sending various pieces: "the young English Gent" ("I like it & wish it went to another Time - it would be much impressed by it"); "the Finale" ("it was hard to do on account of the D-d short lines"); "an Abridgment of the Examination" ("i hope it will do. I couldn't make it shorter"). He'll bring along "The Introduction to Duett" although illness might affect their plans. He gives his address but, in a quotation, asks him to tell no-one of his address.