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THE LETTERS OF

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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VOLUME I

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1966

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Acknowledgements

I am obliged to Her Majesty the Queen for graciously permitting me to transcribe and publish the Sheridan letters in the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle.

I wish to thank descendants of Sheridan's family for their ready help. The owner of copyright, Mary, Comtesse de Renéville, has kindly allowed me to print the letters. Mr. H. F. Brinsley Sheridan has put the material in his possession at my disposal. To the Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava and Judge John Maude I am most grateful for access to, and help in studying, the Dufferin collections. My friend W. R. LeFanu has assisted me considerably by letting me draw on his family papers and on his own extensive knowledge of their background.

A number of owners of original letters have been good enough to allow me either to publish or to check them. For these privileges I am indebted to the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke of Devonshire, Earl Spencer, the late Earl of Ilchester, Earl Grey, the Earl of Lichfield, Viscount Sidmouth, Lord Kenyon, the late Lord Bolton, Lord Cottesloe, Sir Shane Leslie, Bart., and Sir Edward Hoare. Mr. Simon Whitbread kindly allowed me to see the relevant Whitbread papers, and to print the Sheridan letters among them. Miss Margaret J. M. Grubbe generously put John Grubb's papers in my hands. To Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Blackett-Ord, Mr. Brinsley Ford, Mr. Paul M. Gilmore, Mr. Bertram Shuttleworth, Mrs. Alfred Western, and Mrs. L. A. H. Wright I am grateful for opportunities of working through much valuable background material, and for permission to print original letters. I must also thank Mr. T. S. Blakeney, Mr. Alec Clunes, Mr. George Fortescue, Mr. R. G. E. Sandbach, and the late Richard Border for similar privileges.

American scholars and collectors have been equally generous in giving me the use of their manuscripts, and I must express my sincere gratitude for this kindness to Mr. F. W. Hilles, Mr. A. A. Houghton, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hyde, Mr. Robert E. Keighton, Mr. E. L. McAdam, Jr.,

Mr. Gordon N. Ray, Mr. Jack H. Samuels, and Mr. Robert H. Taylor. My greatest debt in this respect is inadequately acknowledged in the dedication.

Among the institutions that have granted me the privilege of working on and printing their manuscripts, I must record the names of the owners of the two largest Sheridan collections: the Harvard College Library and the British Museum. I am also grateful to the officials of the Bath Municipal Library, Bodleian Library, Brotherton Collection, Butler Library of Columbia University, Cornell University Library, Fitzwilliam Museum, the Goldsmiths' Company, Harrow School, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Henry E. Huntington Library, the University of Indiana Library, the University of Kansas Library, Lehigh University Library, Maine Historical Society, the University of Michigan Library, Mitchell Library, Sydney, National Library of Ireland, National Library of Scotland, National Library of Wales, New York Public Library, Oesterreichische-Bibliotek, Pierpont Morgan Library, Princeton University Library, Public Record Office, Riksarkivet, Stockholm, the University of Rochester Library, Royal Irish Academy, Salt Library, Stafford, Saltikova-Schredin Library, Leningrad, Sheffield Public Library, Sir John Soane's Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Public Library of Victoria, Melbourne, the University of Virginia Library, and Yale University Library.

I have also received much help from the Registrar and staff of the National Register of Archives, as well as from the Archivists at the Record Offices of Bedford (Whitbread MSS.), Devon (Sidmouth MSS./D 152M), Hampshire (Tierney MSS.), Northern Ireland (Dufferin MSS.), and West Sussex (Norfolk MSS.). The staffs of the India Record Office, the Royal Academy of Arts, the Royal College of Physicians, the Prior's Kitchen, Durham University, and the City of Westminster Public Libraries have also given me much assistance. I am grateful, too, for the aid I received when working in the archives of the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth, and in those of the Duke of Northumberland at Alnwick.

The work of assembling the text has been greatly assisted

by the grants made to me by the Leverhulme Trust, the University College of Wales, University College, Swansea, and (from its Pilgrim Trust Fund) by the British Academy. I warmly appreciate the fellowship awarded me at the Folger Shakespeare Library, for it enabled me to find much new material, to study the account books of Drury Lane Theatre during Sheridan's management, and to enjoy the help of the Director, Dr. Louis B. Wright, and his staff.

For much personal aid and advice I must first thank Professor Gwyn Jones and Mr. D. M. Davin. For other favours I am grateful to Dr. Arthur Aspinall, Mr. F. W. Bateson, Mr. John Carter, Mr. P. J. Croft, Dr. J. L. Clifford, Dr. Giles Dawson, Mr. C. I. E. Donaldson, Miss Elizabeth C. Ford, the late Dr. E. M. Hampson, Mr. John H. Harvey, Dr. C. B. Hogan, Dr. George M. Kahrl, Miss Letitia Kennedy-Skipton, the late William Van Lennep, Dr. Wilmarth S. Lewis, Dr. J. G. McManaway, Miss Dorothy Mason, Dr. Robert F. Metzdorf, Miss Eleanor Pitcher, Mr. E. V. C. Plumtre, Miss Sybil Rosenfeld, Mr. William H. Runge, the late Michael Sadleir, Dr. Arthur Sherbo, Mr. Grzegorz Sinko, Mr. Alexander D. Wainwright, Miss Helen Willard, Mr. J. L. Williams, Miss Marjorie Wynne, and Mr. R. C. Mackworth Young.

Mr. Robert K. Black, Mr. R. J. Dobell, Miss Emily Driscoll, Messrs. F. Edwards, Messrs. Maggs Bros., Mr. Michael Papantonio, Messrs. Bernard Quaritch, Mr. Philip Robinson, and Messrs. Sotheby have kindly aided me in locating missing Sheridan letters.

For permission to publish letters that have already appeared in print, I have to thank the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Messrs. Constable & Co., Messrs. Ernest Benn, Messrs. Maggs Bros., Sir John Murray, Miss Winifred A. Myers, Messrs. Sotheby, and The Times Publishing Company.

For material that has reached me since this book went to press, I should like to record my gratitude to the Earl of Harewood, Lord Abinger, Lady Beaverbrook and the late Lord Beaverbrook, Dr. W. H. Bond, Dr. N. E. Enkvist, Mr. P. Highfill, Jr., Dr. and Mrs. A. M. Kinloch, Dr. Eric Jacobson, Miss Patricia Sigl, the Secretary and Committee

of the Garrick Club, and the Librarians of the Leeds Central Library, Liverpool City Library, and Nottingham Public Library.

Thanks are too weak to acknowledge all the assistance my wife has given me over the years, in transcription, checking readings, and preparing an index. She has pored with me over the many puzzles presented by Sheridan's handwriting, and contempt for dates. Only I know how much I owe to her accurate eye and unstinting help.

C. P.

Contents

Volume I

     

Elizabeth Sheridan by Thomas Gainsborough	Frontispiece
INTRODUCTION	page xiii
REGISTER OF LETTERS	xxvii
ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES	lv
LETTERS 1-199	1-271

Volume II

  

Richard Brinsley Sheridan from the engraving by Hall after the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds	Frontispiece
LETTERS 200-631	1-311

Volume III

     

Richard Brinsley Sheridan by George Romney	Frontispiece
LETTERS 632-937	1-248
SUMMARY OF OTHER LETTERS	249
APPENDIX OF FURTHER LETTERS	292
INDEX	345

Introduction

Collections of letters usually attract us because they are written by great men whose lives pique our curiosity, or by lesser men who report exactly what went on in their day or express a particular outlook on life. No one will find in Sheridan's letters a satisfying philosophy, but they show gleams of his greatness as well as glimpses of the theatrical, social, and political worlds of his time.

The main interest of the letters is biographical. Sheridan's character is so full of contradictions that it is difficult to assess. His biographers have been painstaking but hardly penetrating, and it is time that readers had the opportunity of studying his correspondence so as to be able to come close to the man and make their own judgements upon him.

His first efforts of any significance belong to 1769, when he tried to imitate the letters of 'Junius' that had appeared in the Public Advertiser and had bitterly satirized public figures. Two of Sheridan's attempts are careless drafts; the third is reprinted for the first time from the newspaper in which it was published. Not one of them is remarkable as a literary composition, but we are bound to perceive that even at the age of eighteen, Sheridan's mind was analytical and critical, and that his chief interest in life was politics.

Another important phase in his career is seen in seven letters written between September 1770 and August 1772, when he lived with his father, brother and two sisters, at Bath. The wit in him comes out early in an amusing letter to Mrs. Angelo. The romantic gallant, who accompanied the beautiful singer, Elizabeth Linley, to France, and afterwards fought two duels with her tormentor, Thomas Mathews, is found to be irascible and legalistic, as argumentative as he was brave.

After these escapades, he was banished to Waltham Abbey to pursue his studies and forget Elizabeth Linley. It is unfortunate that his letters to her over these seven months (September 1772 to March 1773) have never come to light. Percy Fitzgerald suggested that when Sheridan

came to woo his second wife, he copied from the love-letters he had written to his first, but I do not think we need take this view very seriously. Probably Sheridan learned early in his intimacy with Elizabeth a certain language of love, and used it habitually at a later date.

The correspondence of the Waltham Abbey period contains eleven letters addressed to Thomas Grenville, and they often read like essays on a set theme. Their composer (perhaps suiting himself to his correspondent) seems very earnest and even humourless in his long and didactic epistles. Yet they are revealing in the way they bring out a side of his character that is often forgotten: one that was to have its fullest expression in his play Pizarro.

Letters in this lofty and improving strain came to an abrupt end in April 1773, when Sheridan was married to Elizabeth Linley. In spite of his father's displeasure and his own poverty, Sheridan was a happy man at this period, and his joy is shown in the whimsical statement, 'When a man's married, it is time he should leave off speaking in metaphor'. The tone of the ten letters to his father-in-law, Thomas Linley, is as light-hearted as it is purposeful.

Some of them concern The Duenna. As Sheridan's chief composer of music for this ballad-opera, Linley carefully followed the hints that its author gave him, and it is interesting to see how they were conveyed. Sheridan relied considerably on his wife's musical knowledge, but he was always essentially a man of the theatre, knowing exactly what effect he wanted to achieve and where to find the necessary illustration and assistance. His ability as an organizer of other people's talents is shown at an early date.

We look in vain for anything equally important about the composition of The Rivals, The School for Scandal, or The Critic, and the next group of letters is largely concerned with the management of Drury Lane Theatre. Sheridan had become one of the proprietors of this playhouse because of the impression he had made on Garrick and Ford, and his connexion with Linley. He had extended his hold by buying out another of the proprietors, Willoughby Lacy. In 1778 he had also taken control (with Thomas Harris of Covent Garden Theatre) of the King's Theatre, but here

he over-reached himself and the venture failed after two years. The amount of ready money Sheridan put into all three transactions was comparatively small, but he had now made such a name for himself as the author of highly profitable entertainments that it was taken for granted that he could raise ample money at any time by writing.

As the dominant partner in the proprietorship of Drury Lane Theatre, his income was soon large enough to allow him to give time to his absorbing interest, politics. After taking a leading part in the anti-Government agitations of 1778-9, he was elected member for Stafford in September 1780, and became Under-Secretary of State in the Rockingham administration of 1782, and Secretary to the Treasury in the coalition of 1783.

There are sequences of excellent letters in 1782 and 1788 that show his standing as a trusted lieutenant of Fox, and afterwards of the Prince of Wales. They disclose a delight in intrigue and in the subtle manipulation of men; they imply that Sheridan was usually wary in his political dealings. The correspondence of the last decade of the century is much less informative on these matters. There is comparatively little here concerning the French revolution, the quarrel with Burke, the split in the Whig party, the government's repressive measures, or the naval mutinies. The letters that survive deal instead with the creation of the new Drury Lane Theatre as well as with the death of his first wife and his marriage to Hester Jane Ogle.

The first marriage that had begun so romantically was marred in its closing years by Sheridan's gallantries and by Elizabeth's liaison with Lord Edward Fitzgerald. Her illness is movingly described in Sheridan's letters to the Duchess of Devonshire and Lady Duncannon, and he was completely overwhelmed by his wife's death in June 1792.

In April 1795 he was married to the nineteen-year-old daughter of the Dean of Winchester, and his early letters to her are full of affection and tender absurdity. They become more sober as time goes on, and in some of them a brooding fit of melancholy takes possession of him. 'How unceasingly', he writes, 'do I meditate on Death and how continually do I

act as if the thought of it had never cross'd my mind.' These moods of self-criticism and flashes of self-knowledge give depth to offset the more superficial aspects of his character.

At these moments he deplored worldly ambitions, but the fact remains that his days were almost wholly given to them. Of these the most troublesome was the creation of the new Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Garrick's theatre was pulled down, and after much costly delay an immense building was erected. It was designed by Henry Holland to be the finest in Europe, and to stage the most spectacular productions. All this reflected Sheridan's delight in the flamboyant. Unfortunately Holland exceeded his estimates, and Sheridan had not sufficient capital to complete the original plan. Honourably but quixotically, he took on himself all the unpaid debts of the company. Then he had to resort to all kinds of expedients to improve his finances: he borrowed from his associates, John Grubb and Thomas Shaw; raised money by the sale of boxes; neglected his backers and his creditors. His extravagant tastes and unsound management even kept him short of pocket money, and in frequent notes to the under-treasurer, Richard Peake, he pleaded in a variety of passionate cries for small advances. I have printed many of these in full because they show his characteristic energy of phrasing, and give a fair idea of the way in which Sheridan was plagued with money troubles largely because of his own heedlessness.

This state of affairs was brought to a temporary halt in 1801-2, when the future of Drury Lane Theatre was discussed in detail in the Court of Chancery. The bankers, Hammersley and Company, declared that the proprietors had misapplied the takings of the theatre; and Sheridan appeared in person to rebut the charge. By his interruptions and lengthy defence, he successfully maintained his case; but Lord Chancellor Eldon also rebuked him by applying to him Johnson's famous words about Savage: 'negligence and irregularity long continued, make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible'.

The Chancellor also made an order for the payment of the theatre's liabilities from its takings in a certain scale of

priority; and he placed the concern under the control of a committee. Two of the leading figures in the new management were Sheridan's friends, Aaron Graham and Richard Wilson. More business-like methods were adopted, but control remained effectively in Sheridan's hands.

In February 1806 he found himself once again for a short time in political office, in the lucrative post of Treasurer of the Navy. The correspondence of the year is very full but chiefly concerns the Stafford election, the abortive candidature for Westminster, and the successful but very costly Westminster contest of November 1806. Sheridan went out of office with All the Talents in 1807, and his political correspondence after that date is chiefly interesting for the part he played in denying control of the government to Grey and Grenville in 1811 and 1812. As usual, he behaved with that mixture of the quixotic and the calculating that won him the confidence of nobody.

The same is true of his actions as chief proprietor of Drury Lane Theatre. His squabbles with the trustees and the bankers were patched up from time to time, and their uneasy relationship looked as if it would continue indefinitely. Then the theatre that was planned to be fireproof burned down, and a new start had to be made. Sheridan's letter to his wife about this catastrophe shows him behaving (in a slightly histrionic way) with manly philosophy. The banker, Thomas Hammersley, thought the destruction no disaster. In fact, he believed it gave Sheridan a splendid opportunity to repair his theatre and his shattered fortunes by drawing on private benefactions for rebuilding, just as J. P. Kemble had done at Covent Garden Theatre. And so it might have happened had Sheridan acted quickly, but his very proper desire for independence was only exceeded by his habitual procrastination, and nothing was done. Two years later, when an agitation for a third theatre was at its strongest, he began to act with vigour. He obtained the help of the wealthy brewer Samuel Whitbread, and persuaded him to head the Committee for rebuilding. He had a most remarkable faculty for persuading his friends to come to his rescue; but even Whitbread, with all his initial goodwill, found that potential subscribers now had to be assured, before they would

consider the new propositions, that Sheridan had no concern in the management of Drury Lane Theatre. They were tired of his shifts and his dilatoriness. Sheridan was forced out of the controlling interest which he had enjoyed for thirty-five years. Still, the new proprietors had to buy this from him, and he looked forward to being paid in hard cash. Even this was denied him, and his demands were satisfied (after long discussion) in the same manner as he had fobbed off many a creditor--with shares in the theatre.

The last years (1812-16) of his life saw him out of parliament and Drury Lane. Observers cried, 'Poor Sherry!' They quoted him as a genius ruined by drink and self-indulgence. Yet it must be remembered that this was the period when he made such a striking impression on Byron. Indeed, if Sheridan was in decline the letters written in these years hardly show it, for they indicate his delight in society, his critical yet appreciative temper, his eye for the main chance, his good nature and warm heart. He occasionally grumbled at not hearing from his wife or second son, but generally his letters were cheerful and optimistic. His wife commented on this tendency 'to eat the calf in the cow's belly', and it is certain that he always hoped to realize the many schemes, extravagant or sober, that passed through his mind. Sheridan was never short of invention, even though he too seldom applied that talent to writing plays. What he lacked was the power to stop himself squandering his energies in all directions. And what was worse was that he insisted on giving to his multiplicity of activities not as much time as they required, but as much as he felt disposed to yield to them.

Towards the end of his life he read some early verses of his and remarked, 'What an ardent romantic blockhead nature made me'. Surely what he meant (and what his letters reveal) was that there was a constant conflict in him between a shrewd, practical outlook that took full advantage of every situation, and a high-minded desire to show integrity in all his dealings. He liked (though he could seldom afford it) to be completely disinterested. He has had little credit for this scrupulous side of his nature; the other side has always been obvious, and it earned him a bad name.

He sometimes excused his procrastination as a 'perverse fatality in my nature', and meant this quite seriously. The moods of melancholy, the bouts of drunkenness, the cruel tricks, shifts, and excuses, the sophistries and winning words, were beyond his control. He would have us believe (and I believe him) that he usually meant well but could seldom manage to put his meaning into action.

He tantalizes us, but there is something so human in his foibles that he remains a curiously sympathetic character. Perhaps his gift of phrase-making catches our attention; or his rueful remarks about his own shortcomings endear him to us. Yet what holds us in the end is this intimate communing with a man of genius who knows his own faults only too well but can do nothing to change his nature. In that situation lies the pathos of these letters.

They are not brilliantly written, and anyone who expects them to be worthy of the author of The School for Scandal will be disappointed. To achieve elegance of that kind, Sheridan had to write and rewrite. He seldom gave his letters enough attention: 'I shall confess that I write much more precipitately and triflingly often than I could wish.'

Most of them are brief. John Taylor describes an evening at the Shakespeare Tavern when Sheridan wrote 'about thirty letters, which he tied up in a handkerchief, and then resigned himself to conversation'. Edmund Kean quotes Sheridan as saying that no gentleman ever turned over the page in a letter to a friend. Charles Brinsley Sheridan looked through his father's letters and noted that 'almost all are extremely short; and he always put off writing till post'.

Sheridan knew his weakness (the product of procrastination) only too well, and made one of his most clear-sighted statements when he told Garrick 'what I write in a hurry I always feel not to be worth reading, and what I try to take pains with, I am sure never to finish'. His long letters, in later life, were usually careful attempts at special pleading.

Secrecy, too, was necessary in his world of political manœuvre, financial juggling, and fashionable intrigue. This prevented the uninhibited expression of opinion, and robbed his letters of savour. In one of them he made this clear by remarking that he preferred to reserve 'the greater part of

what I meant to have written for personal communication'. Speech was less binding than writing. He knew how gifted he was in the art of oral persuasion: his genial, sympathetic manner and physical radiance all helped to convince. Sheridan was not a lazy man, but he could do so much with his tongue that his pen was always a more tedious medium. It is something of a wonder that he ever wrote any letters.

Those that remain are valuable records of the day-to-day variations of an elusive but always interesting character. They remind us sometimes of Lady Holland's comment on Sheridan, 'About him my reason and impulse are always at variance; reflection convinces me he ought to be despised for his private life and doubted for his political, but whenever I see him, if but for five minutes, a sort of cheerful frankness and pleasant wittiness puts to flight all the reasonable prejudices I entertain against him.' At other times we recall the words spoken in his own defence before the Lord Chancellor: 'I have had to struggle with the disadvantages of uncertain income. These, in all cases, are known to be great, but they are particularly formidable to a man of a sanguine temper, blessed with but a small share of resolution, who might expect much from the exertions of talent, who forms hopes which are never realised, and makes to himself promises he is unable to perform.' More rarely we recollect Byron's warm praise, 'his very dregs are better than the first sprightly runnings of others'. Yet even if the letters too seldom show Sheridan at his best, they clearly reveal the nature of the man and are a necessary supplement to his actions, speeches, and plays.

The Text

When Sheridan died, his wife remarked on 'the incredible quantity of private papers' he had left behind him. Many of them were legal documents, and others were letters written to him as proprietor of Drury Lane Theatre and as a member of parliament. Some of the letters written by Sheridan himself seem to have been lent to Thomas Moore for the authorized biography, and to have been lost. Most of them were carefully preserved by Sheridan's grandson (and namesake) at Frampton Court, Dorset, and they remained in the family until they were dispersed at Sotheby's sale-rooms on 2 July 1930, 1 March 1955, and 18 February 1957. Another fine collection, gathered by Sophie, Lady Wavertree (Sheridan's great-great-granddaughter), was also sold there on 25 May 1954. These sources provide this edition with many letters. Others are drawn from the archives of the Prince Regent, C. J. Fox, Charles Grey, Samuel Whitbread, Thomas Creevey, and other public figures of the period. Sheridan's association with Drury Lane Theatre is well represented in numerous letters to his fellow manager, John Grubb, and to the Theatre's treasurer, Richard Peake. Letters to other correspondents are widely dispersed in public and private collections in this country and abroad.

I have made every effort to trace them all, but have now resigned myself to the probability that many have escaped me. It is to be hoped that when they come to light they will be found to be letters to his first wife, particularly of the Waltham Abbey period when Sheridan drafted some of the work that later made him famous.

Among the letters I have not traced are the following: eleven to Colonel Graham (sold to Spencer at Sotheby's, 1 August 1935); some in an extra-illustrated copy of Watkins's Memoirs of ... Sheridan (sold by Leavitt, New York, 14 October 1878, lot 1080), and of Moore's Memoirs of ... Sheridan (sold to Smythe at Sotheby's, 26 July 1923). Nor have I found the letter mentioned in Moore's memoranda (Widener MS.): 'see among Richardson's papers

Sheridan's letter to Richardson in '88 about purchasing Ford's share.'

Over the past ten years I have approached the agents of the Marchioness of Crewe on a number of occasions, about letters to Mrs. Crewe. I gather that some 'Sheridan letters' are extant, but that it is still not possible to gain access to them.

I have not included the text of two well-known letters that Sheridan signed with his friends: one was the 'Round Robin' to Johnson; the other, the address to Francis on 18 December 1787. Both are readily available in The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, iii (ed. G. H. Guttridge, Cambridge and Chicago, 1961), 273-4, and v (ed. H. Furber, 1965), 370-1.

While the present work has been in the press, some letters that it includes as unpublished have appeared in print. The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, iv (ed. J. A. Woods, 1963), 439-40, contains no. 78; volume v (ed. cit.), 121, 377-8, 457, presents nos. 89, 109, 143. Dr. N. E. Enkvist gives no. 178 in Acta Academiae Aboensis, Humaniora, xxvii, 3 (Åbo, 1964), 103. The first two volumes of Dr. Arthur Aspinall's edition of The Correspondence of George, Prince of Wales, 1770-1812 (1963-4) contain sixteen letters. I list my numbers followed (in brackets) by Dr. Aspinall's: nos. 117 (290), 118 (286), 120 (346), 121 (296), 122 (334), 126 (308), 127 (309), 128 (302), 130 (311), 131 (318), 132 (292), 135 (302), 137 (369), 158 (578), 209 (844), Summary G. 3 (466).

Sotheby's sale catalogue of 21 March 1966 notes (as item 260) a letter from Sheridan to his second wife, telling her that Burdett had been 'taken by force to the Tower'. He added that he did not know what would happen but was glad she was away. His postscript noted 'much blood spilt at the Tower'.

Conventions

I have printed the name of the recipient of the letter at the head of the text, and have then described the source. The names of private owners and of libraries possessing less than five Sheridan letters are quoted in full. Collections containing five or more letters are given an abbreviated title.

Unless there is an indication to the contrary, the letters are holographs. The description 'Draft' means an early version in Sheridan's hand: cancelled words have been omitted. 'Copy' refers to a Sheridan letter written in a hand not his own. Where the text is from photographic copies of original letters, that fact is indicated by the sign '[Ph.]'. Where the text is from a printed version, the earliest published form is followed.

A letter is described as published when the bulk of it has been printed elsewhere, but when brief extracts only have appeared publication is merely mentioned in footnotes. If a printed version is not named at the head of the letter or in a footnote, the letter is believed to be unpublished.

What are thought to be errors by other transcribers have usually been corrected without comment, but where the transcription remains in doubt or the alternative version has some other interest, then it is printed in a footnote.

When the date of a letter has not been placed by Sheridan at its head, the date is given in that position in italics. Dates supplied by the editor have been placed there in italics and square brackets. Abbreviated dates (e.g. 'Mond. eg.') have been expanded.

In transcribing original letters, I have tried to reproduce exactly what Sheridan wrote, but I have also compromised with this ideal by sometimes editing the text in the interests of readability. For example, all superior letters have been lowered to the line, and conventional abbreviations (including the ampersand) have been expanded. 'Mr', 'M .', and are all printed as 'Mr.' I have also supplied the missing stop if followed by a capital, and the missing capital if preceded by a stop. Unclosed parentheses have been

completed. Sheridan's use of 'your's' has been accepted, but 'it's' (for 'its') has been amended because of its ambiguity.

Sheridan is fond of using the dash. He also employs a very short downward stroke on the line that I have represented as a comma. His short level stroke on the line (or longer one followed by a wide space) I have shown as a point.

Of Sheridan's spelling, Moore writes: 'we find thing always spelt think--whether, where and which turned into wether, were, and wich; and double' ms and s's almost invariably reduced to "single blessedness".' The position is not quite as simple as Moore suggests, for in the very letter he alludes to, Sheridan spells 'thing' correctly and as 'think'. Sheridan is inconsistent even in his own inconsistencies, but the following generalizations have been accepted. He is confused about words containing 'ie', 'ei', and 'ai': for example, he writes 'peice', 'deceive', and 'villianous'. He sometimes metathesizes syllables, as in 'arbritation' and 'blasmephy'. 'Goverment' and 'seperate' are usual. These, and the following words, have all been normalized:

          

accomodation	agrieved	alltogether
allways	attonement	beautifull
benefitted	comands	compells
conexion	disapointment	disaprove
embarasment	emphaticaly	especialy
exagerated	existance	finaly
genious	infallably	inocence
inofensive	misaplied	privilige
realy	recolection	recomendation
subsistance	tranquility	tranquilize

Sometimes his spelling seems to reflect his own pronunciation: 'cridit', 'threasury', 'taching' (touching), 'deatis' (deities), 'Beiting' (biting), 'set' (said), 'begone' (begun).

Repetition of syllables (e.g. 'indepependently') and of words has been silently corrected. Nonsense words (e.g. 'insituate') have been amended, but eighteenth-century spellings (e.g. 'ideot') have been retained. Inadvertently omitted letters or words have been supplied in square brackets, and unclosed quotation marks have been silently closed. The £ sign which often appears in the manuscripts after or

above the figuring has been brought to the front. Sheridan's odd spelling of some proper names has not been amended.

Where the transcription is made from copies, any eccentricities of spelling and punctuation have been normalized.

References to the dates of auction catalogues are to the first day of sale only.

Manuscripts are listed by their locations at the time when I read them. I have not attempted to record their more recent movements, though it may be worth noting that Mr. Shuttleworth's manuscripts are now in the Bodleian Library, and that the Holland House letters are in the British Museum, temporarily catalogued as Add. MS. 51641.

In the 'Summary of other Letters' (iii. 249-91), extracts from the letters themselves appear in quotation marks.

Register of Letters

Volume I

                                  

1766
		PAGE
1. Richard Chamberlaine	2 Mar. [1766?]	1
2. Richard Chamberlaine	June	2
3. Richard Chamberlaine	[Oct.]	2
1769
4. [The Printer of the Public Advertiser]	[1769?]	3
5. The Printer of the Public Advertiser	Oct.	6
6. 'NOVUS'	[After 19 Oct.]	12
1770
7. Mrs. Angelo	[13 Oct. 1770?]	18
1772
8. His Father	24 Jan. [1772?]	22
9. His Father	29 Feb.	22
10. His Brother	15 Apr.	24
11. William Wade	2 May	26
12. [The Printer of the Bath Chronicle?]	[May-June]	27
13. Captain Knight	July	30
14. His Father	30 Aug.	34
15. His Sister Elizabeth	30 Aug.	37
16. Thomas Grenville	30 Aug.	39
17. His Sister Elizabeth	13 Sept.	41
18. Thomas Grenville	[Late Sept.]	43
19. [To the Queen]	[1772?]	47
20. Thomas Grenville	30 Oct.	59
21. Thomas Grenville	10 Nov.	63
22. Thomas Grenville	17 Nov.	65
23. Thomas Grenville	28 Nov.	66
24. Thomas Grenville	8 Dec.	68
25. Thomas Grenville	[Mid-Dec.]	69
26. Thomas Grenville	19 Dec.	69
1773
27. Thomas Grenville	4 Jan.	70
28. William Barnett	[1773?]	73

                                   

29. Thomas Grenville	24 Feb.	76
30. Thomas Linley the elder	12 May	79
31. Thomas Grenville	14 May	82
1774
32. Dinwoody	24 Feb.	84
33. Thomas Linley the elder	17 Nov.	84
1775
34. Thomas Linley the elder	Oct.	86
35. Thomas Linley the elder	[Oct.?]	88
36. Thomas Linley the elder	[23-27 Oct.?]	90
37. Thomas Linley the elder	2 Nov.	92
38. Thomas Linley the elder	31 Dec.	93
1776
39. Thomas Linley the elder	4 Jan.	96
40. Robert Crispin	12 Jan.	98
41. ----	16 Jan.	99
42. Thomas Linley the elder	31 Jan.	99
43. Thomas Linley the elder		102
44. David Garrick	15-16 Oct.	104
45. Carr	[1776?]	108
1777
46. ----	19 Jan[?]	109
47. [The Licencer of Plays]	17 Feb.	110
48. [The Licencer of Plays]	7 May	110
49. [The Proprietors of Drury Lane Theatre]	[Sept. 1777?]	111
50. [The Proprietors of the Drury Lane		116
Theatre and Covent Garden Theatres]
1778
51. David Garrick	10 Jan.	121
52. [The Licencer of Plays]	13 Oct.	122
53. David Garrick	26 Nov.	123
54. Bray	[1778-81?]	123
1779
55. Samuel Ireland	1 Jan.	124
56. Willoughby Lacy	[26 Jan.]	124

                                                                              

57. Richard Rigby	24 Mar.	125
58. Joseph Cradock	5 June	126
59. Samuel Ireland	29 Aug.	126
60. ----	[29 Oct.]	127
61. [The Licencer of Plays]	29 Oct.	128
62. Richard Fitzpatrick	[25 Oct. or
	1 Nov.]	128
1780
63. Samuel Ireland	5 Jan.	129
64. Samuel Ireland	23 Mar.	129
65. Joseph Cradock	12 July	130
66. Joseph Cradock	[1780?]	131
67. Joseph Cradock	[1780-4]	131
68. Ozias Humphry	[Aug.]	132
69. Ozias Humphry	18 Aug.	133
70. Ozias Humphry	[July-Sept.]	133
71. [His Stafford Supporters]	[13 Sept.]	134
72. The Duchess of Devonshire	19 Sept.	135
73. [Thomas Dudley]	16 Oct.	136
74. Mrs. Thrale	9 Nov.	136
1781
75. Frances Greville		137
1782
76. His Brother	2 Apr.	138
77. The Earl of Surrey	4 Apr.	140
78. Edmund Burke	7 Apr.	141
79. His Brother	8 Apr.	142
80. His Brother	20 Apr.	143
81. Richard Fitzpatrick	20 May	144
82. Thomas Grenville	21 May	147
83. Thomas Grenville	26 May	148
84. Thomas Harris	2 July	151
85. Thomas Grenville	4 July	152
1783
86. The Earl of Surrey	23 Apr.	154
87. William Brummell	6 June	155
88. Caleb Whitefoord		155
89. Edmund Burke		156
90. Sir Henry Clinton	17 Oct.	156
1784
91. Thomas Orde	[Feb.]	157
92. His Brother	[Feb.]	158
93. 'To the People of England'	18 Feb.	158
94. Joseph Cradock	23 Mar.	160
95. Evan Nepean	25 Aug.	160
96. Thomas Graham	23 Oct.	161
1785
97. Stratford Canning	[20 July]	162
98. Stratford Canning	[26 July]	163
99. His Brother	[Early Aug.?]	164
100. William Eden	[19 Aug.]	165
101. [Willoughby Lacy]	[Nov.]	165
102. [Albany Wallis?]	[c. 1783-5]	166
1787
103. [William Pitt]	[3 May]	176
104. William Pitt	[3 May]	177
105. William Pitt	[4 May]	177
106. Mehitabel Canning	[25 July]	178
107. William Thomson	[23 Aug.]	179
1788
108. Samuel Parr	20 Jan.	179
109. Edmund Burke	3 Feb.	180
110. [Sir Peter Burrell]	[1788?]	181
111. [Sir Peter Burrell]	[1788?]	181
112. H. S. Woodfall, Junr.	[1788?]	182
113. His Brother	[12 Aug.]	182
114. Daniel Jarvis	[15 Aug.]	183
115. The Duchess of Devonshire	[Oct. 1788?]	183
116. J. W. Payne	[6 Nov. 1788?]	186
117. The Prince of Wales	[6 Nov.?]	186
118. J. W. Payne	[7 Nov. 1788?]	188
119. J. W. Payne	[8 Nov. 1788?]	190
120. J. W. Payne	[9 Nov. 1788?]	191
121. J. W. Payne	[10 Nov.?]	192
122. J. W. Payne	[14-15 Nov.?]	193
123. [Lord Loughborough]	[19 Nov. 1788?]	193
124. J. W. Payne	[1788?]	194
125. J. W. Payne	[20 Nov.]	195

                                    

126. The Prince of Wales	[23 Nov.]	195
127. J. W. Payne	[23 Nov.?]	197
128. J. W. Payne	[23 Nov.?]	197
129. J. W. Payne	[24 Nov.]	199
130. The Prince of Wales	[24 Nov.]	200
131. [Lord Loughborough?]	[26-27 Nov. 1788?]	201
132. The Prince of Wales	[Nov.-Dec.1788?]	201
133. Lord Palmerston	[1 Dec.?]	202
134. The Prince of Wales	[2 Dec. 1788?]	203
135. J. W. Payne	[18 Nov.3 Dec.]	204
136. Lord Lonsdale	[Dec. 1788?]	205
137. J. W. Payne	[28 Dec.]	206
1788-9
138. [C. J. Fox]	[1788-9?]	206
139. Lady Duncannon		207
1789
140. J. W. Payne	[Jan.]	209
141. The Duke of Bedford	29 Mar.	209
142. His Brother	[2 Apr.]	209
143. Edmund Burke	[13 Apr. 1789?]	211
144. His Sister Elizabeth	[Before July]	212
145. James Ford	17 Nov.	213
146. Francis Hargrave	10 Dec.	213
1789-90
147. ----		214
148. The Duke of Bedford		215
1790
149. The Duchess of Devonshire	[c. Oct.]	219
150. John Harrington	17 Nov.	221
151. William Adam	20 Nov.	221
152. The Duchess of Devonshire		222
and Lady E. Foster	[1790?]	222
1791
153. The Duke of Bedford	[Early 1791]	222
154. Henry Holland	23 Mar.	222
155. [Lady Duncannon]	[12 Apr.]	223

                                        

156. ----	[Apr.-May 1791?]	224
157. The Duchess of Devonshire	20 July 1791?]	225
158. The Prince of Wales	[31 July]	227
159. [To Parties concerned	Oct.	229
about the Dormant Patent?]
1791-2
160. Henry Holland		233
1792
161. [Willoughby Lacy]	28 Jan. [1792?]	233
162. [William Taylor]	[Jan.-Feb. 1792?]	234
163. ----	[Early 1792]	235
164. His Wife	[Feb.]	236
165. Mehitabel Canning	[Jan.-Apr. 1792?]	236
166. [Lady Duncannon]	2-4 Mar.	237
167. ----	Apr.	240
168. Samuel Parr	1 May	240
169. [Lady Duncannon]	3 May	241
170. Samuel Parr	[7 May]	243
171. The Duchess of Devonshire	[7 May]	244
172. Henry Holland	10 May	245
173. [Lady Duncannon?]	10-14 May	245
174. George White	15 May	247
175. [Lady Duncannon]	[16-22 May 1792?]	248
176. [Lord Thurlow]	22 May	250
177. [Albany Wallis?]	26 May	251
178. ----	27 May	254
179. [Thomas Westley]	[May]	255
180. Henry Holland	28 May	255
181. Samuel Parr	[May-June]	257
182. Joseph Richardson	[June]	257
183. Andrew Bain		260
184. Henry Holland	18 Aug.	260
185. [Lady Duncannon]	27 Aug.	261
186. Henry Holland	4 Sept.	262
187. The Prince of Wales	[1792?]	262
188. Henry Holland	27 Oct.	263
189. [Lady Duncannon?]	[Dec.]	264
1793
190. Henry Holland	6 May	265
191. Henry Holland	14 May	265

        

192. Thomas Bernard	May	266
193. Henry Holland	20 May	267
194. Thomas Parker	24 May	267
195. Henry Holland	[26 May]	268
196. Thomas Parker	[27 May]	269
197. Henry Holland	8 July	269
198. Henry Holland	27 Oct.	270
199. Charles James Fox	27 Dec. [1793?]	270

Volume II

1794

                             

200. Henry Holland	[1794?]	1
201. William Adam	Jan.	1
202. [The Duchess of Devonshire]	[17 Jan.]	2
203. J. Bluett	29 Jan.	4
204. Henry Holland	17 Feb.	4
205. Henry Holland	16 Mar.	5
206. Henry Dundas	[9 May]	5
207. Lord Kenyon	[11] May	11
208. Mrs. Almon	[1794?]	11
209. J. W. Payne	28 June	12
210. His Son Tom	[Autumn]	13
211. Richard Peake	[c. 1794]	13
212. Henry Holland	28 Dec.	13
1795
213. [Thomas Smyth?]	[1795?]	14
214. Vanhutchison	27 Feb.	15
215. Ozias Humphry		16
216. [Edward Jerningham]	[Before 17 Apr.]	16
217. His Wife	[1795?]	17
218. Samuel Ireland	9 June	17
219. Samuel Ireland	10 June	18
220. Samuel Ireland	8 July	18
221. Samuel Ireland	13 July	18
222. Samuel Ireland	24 July	19
223. Richard Troward	6 Aug.	19
224. Samuel Ireland	8 Aug.	20
225. [John Grubb]	20 Aug.	20
226. Richard Peake	24 Aug.	21
227. His Wife	[Aug. 1795?]	22

                                        

228. Samuel Ireland		24
229. [John Grubb]	6 Sept.	24
230. [John Grubb]	[Sept.]	25
231. [Ransom, Morland and Hammerlsey?]	[Soon after 19 Sept.?]	26
232. Richard Peake	22 Sept.	27
233. John Grubb		27
234. [John Grubb]	7 Oct.	28
235. Thomas Shaw	[Oct.]	29
236. Thomas Greenwood	18 Nov.	30
237. [Willoughby Lacy]	[19 Nov. 1795?]	30
238. Henry Holland, John Grubb,	5 Dec.	30
Joseph Richardson, and Tom Sheridan
239. Henry Holland	28 Dec.	31
1796
240. William Capon	24 Feb.	32
241. John Grubb	17 Apr.	32
242. [John Grubb]	[c. 17 Apr.]	33
243. [John Grubb]	[Apr.-May]	34
244. J. P. Kemble	[Spring 1796?]	34
245. George Colman the younger		35
246. John Grubb	[24 May]	36
247. John Grubb	25 May	37
248. The Electors of Stafford	[27-28 May]	37
249. His Wife	[2 June 1796?]	38
250. His Wife	[4 June 1796?]	39
251. ----	[June]	39
252. The Prince of Wales	10 June	39
253. John Grubb	13 June	41
254. His Wife	18 June	41
255. His Wife	[1796?]	42
256. His Wife	29 July	43
257. His Wife	[1-2 Aug. 1796?]	43
258. His Wife	4 Aug.	45
259. His Wife	22 Aug.	45
260. His Wife	24 Aug.	46
261. His Wife	[1796?]	47
262. [John Grubb]	[Sept.]	47
263. His Wife	20 Sept.	48
264. His Wife	[21 Sept. 1796?]	49
265. His Wife	[26 Sept. 1796?]	50

                                         

266. John Grubb	[Sept. 1796?]	51
267. William Adam	[Sept.]	51
268. His Wife	[1796?]	52
269. His Wife	[6 Oct. 1796?]	53
270. ----	14 Oct. [1796?]	54
271. His Wife	11 Nov.	56
272. [John Grubb]	[20 Nov. 1796?]	57
273. [John Grubb]	[1796?]	58
274. [John Grubb]	[1796?]	58
275. John Grubb		58
276. John Grubb	[1796?]	59
277. [John Grubb]	[1796?]	59
278. John Grubb	[28 Nov. 1796?]	60
279. [John Grubb]	[1796?]	60
280. Mrs. Jordan	[Dec.]	61
281. John Grubb	[28 Dec. 1796?]	62
282. Richard Peake	[After 1796]	63
1797
283. Anne Ogle	[Early 1797?]	63
284. John Grubb	[13 Jan.]	64
285. ----	26 Feb. [1797?]	64
286. Richard Peake	[1797?]	66
287. His Wife	12 Apr.	67
288. His Wife	[1797?]	68
289. John Grubb	[c. 12 May 1797?]	68
290. John Grubb	[1797?]	69
291. William Adam	Summer	69
292. Richard Peake	25 June	70
293. Thomas Anson	4 July	70
294. Lady Webster	[Before 6 July]	71
295. Richard Peake	[Summer 1797?]	72
296. John Grubb, Richard Wroughton,	[July 1797?]	72
and Richard Peake
297. His Wife	[July 1797?]	73
298. His Wife	21 Aug.	74
299. John Grubb	10 Sept.	75
300. John Grubb	[1797?]	75
301. Richard Peake	19 Sept.	76
302. His Wife	20 Sept.	76
303. [John Grubb]	[Oct. 1797?]	77
304. John Grubb	[Before Nov. 1797?]	78

                                        

305. [John Grubb]	[1797?]	78
306. Richard Peake	27 Nov.	79
307. John Grubb	[Shortly before 30 Nov.]	79
308. Richard Wilson	[29 Nov. 1797?]	80
309. [Richard Peake?]	5 Dec.	80
1797-8
310. John Grubb	[1797-8?]	80
311. [Richard Peake]	[1797-8?]	81
312. Richard Peake	[1797-8?]	81
1798
313. William Adam	20 Jan.	82
314. Jonathan Sadler	25 Jan.	82
315. Richard Peake	[Jan. 1798?]	83
316. S. W. Wadeson	[1798?]	83
317. John Grubb	[21 Feb.]	84
318. John Grubb	[1798?]	84
319. John Grubb	[Just before 24 Mar.]	85
320. His Wife	[Just before 24 Mar.]	85
321. John Grubb		86
322. His Wife	[Mar.-Apr. 1798?]	87
323. John Grubb	[1 Apr. 1798?]	88
324. Richard Peake	[1 Apr. 1798?]	89
325. John Grubb	[c. 15 May 1798?]	90
326. William Adam	[May]	91
327. John Grubb	[21 May 1798?]	91
328. His Wife	[22 May]	92
329. His Wife	[23 May]	94
330. William Sleigh	17 June	96
331. Bryan Edwards	[18] June	96
332. John Grubb	[1798?]	97
333. William Sleigh	8 Sept.	97
334. Richard Peake	[Sept. 1798?]	98
335. Richard Peake	[Sept. 1798?]	99
336. James Aikin	[Autumn 1798?]	99
337. Richard Peake	[1798?]	100
338. John Grubb	[1798?]	100
339. John Graham	[Autumn 1798?]	100
340. John Grubb	[1798?]	101
341. Richard Peake	5 Nov.	101
342. John Grubb	[1798?]	102

                                     

343. Nathaniel Ogle	1 Dec.	102
344. Richard Peake	[1798?]	103
1798-9?
345. [John Grubb]	[1798-9?]	104
346. John Grubb	[1798-9?]	104
1798-1800?
347. ----	[1798-1800?]	104
1799
348. John Grubb	[1799?]	105
349. Lady Bessborough	[Mar.]	106
350. The Trustees of Drury Lane Theatre	[Mar.]	106
351. James Aikin	[12 Mar.]	109
352. Richard Peake	[Mar. 1799?]	109
353. His Wife	[24-27 Mar.]	110
354. [Richard Phillips]	30 Mar.	111
355. John Grubb	[1799?]	112
356. [Henry Holland]	17 Apr.	112
357. Walter and James	17 Apr.	113
358. Richard Peake	[Spring 1799?]	113
359. John Grubb	[1799?]	114
360. John Grubb	[1799?]	114
361. ----	[Apr.-May 1799?]	115
362. [Richard Phillips]	[2 May]	115
363. John Grubb	[May 1799?]	116
364. Richard Peake	[8 May 1799?]	116
365. Richard Peake	[May 1799?]	117
366. [Willoughby Lacy?]	[May 1799?]	117
367. An Official in the	23 May [1799?]	118
Lord Chamberlain's Office
368. William Siddons	3 June	118
369. Lady Holland	July	119
370. Richard Peake	28 Aug. [1799?]	119
371. Richard Peake	Sept.	120
372. Richard Peake	[Sept. 1799?]	120
373. John Graham	[1799?]	121
374. Richard Peake	[1799?]	122
375. John Grubb		122

                                      

376. Richard Peake	[11 Dec. 1799?]	123
377. [Lord Holland]	[Dec. 1799?]	123
378. Richard Peake	[25 Dec. 1799?]	123
1799-1800
379. Richard Peake		124
380. Richard Peake	[1799-1800]	124
1800
381. Richard Peake	12 Jan.	125
382. His Wife	[1800?]	125
383. The Editor of The Sun/The Morning Post	18 Jan.	126
384. Richard Peake		129
385. Richard Peake	[14 Mar. 1800?]	130
386. His Wife	[20 Mar. 1800?]	130
387. Richard Peake	7 Apr.	133
388. Richard Peake	10 Apr.	133
389. Richard Peake	[3 May]	134
390. William Adam		134
391. His Wife	[23 July]	134
392. His Wife	[24 July 1800?]	135
393. Richard Peake	15 Aug.	137
394. Richard Peake	25 Aug.	137
395. His Wife	5 Sept.	138
396. Richard Peake	20 Oct.	139
397. His Wife	22 Nov.	139
398. Richard Peake	[22 Nov.]	141
399. Charles Grey	[23 Nov. 1800?]	141
1801
400. William Adam	Jan.	144
401. Richard Peake	[1801?]	146
402. Richard Peake	[1801?]	147
403. William Adam	31 Jan.	147
404. His Wife	[10] Feb.	149
405. [Willoughby Lacy]	[12 Feb. 1801?]	150
406. Richard Peake	[Mar. 1801?]	151
407. William Adam	Apr.	151
408. William Adam	May	152
409. Richard Peake	22 May	152
410. His Wife	[2-3 June]	153

                                       

411. William Adam	8 June	154
412. William Adam	8 June	155
413. William Adam	12 June	155
414. William Adam	13 June	156
415. William Adam	20 June	156
416. William Adam	28 June	157
417. His Wife	8 July	157
418. His Wife	17 July	158
419. Henry Bate Dudley	20 July	158
420. Richard Peake	[1801?]	159
421. William Adam	23 July	160
422. William Adam	7 Aug.	160
423. William Adam	[7 Aug. 1801?]	161
424. [Henry Burgess?]	Aug.	161
425. George Edwards	28 Aug.	162
426. William Adam	23 Sept.	162
427. Richard Peake	[Oct. 1801?]	163
428. Richard Peake	[Oct. 1801?]	163
429. Richard Ford and Thomas Hammersley	13 Nov.	164
430. Richard Peake	[11 Dec. 1801?]	165
431. Richard Peake	[1801?]	165
1801-2
432. Richard Peake		165
433. Richard Peake	[1801-2?]	166
434. Richard Peake		166
435. To Dudley	[1801-2?]	167
1802
436. The Editor of The Courier	Jan.	167
437. Arthur Palmer	2 Feb.	170
438. Henry F. Greville	17 Feb.	170
439. The Editor of The Oracle	18 Feb.	171
440. Henry F. Greville	Mar.	174
441. William Adam	[Apr.]	175
442. William Adam	16 Apr.	175
443. Jennings	4 May	176
444. Richard Peake	[5 May 1802?]	176
445. Richard Peake	[1 June 1802?]	176
446. Richard Peake	[6 June]	177
447. Richard Peake	[8 June]	178

                                        

448. Richard Peake	[9 June]	179
449. Richard Peake	[10 June]	179
450. William Adam	[June]	180
451. Richard Peake	[16 June 1802?]	180
452. William Adam	[17 June]	181
453. The Electors of Stafford	22 June	182
454. Richard Peake	[27 June 1802?]	182
455. Richard Peake	28 June	183
456. Richard Peake	[1802?]	183
457. The Electors of Stafford	July	184
458. His Son Tom	[Just before 4 July]	184
459. Henry Burgess	5 July	185
460. Richard Peake		186
461. Anna Maria Ogle	[1802?]	187
462. Anna Maria Ogle	[1802?]	187
463. Richard Peake	[1802?]	188
464. William Adam	12 Sept.	188
465. Richard Peake	12 Oct.	189
466. John Graham	30 Oct.	190
467. William Adam	9 Nov.	190
468. Thomas Creevey	[Nov. 1802?]	191
469. William Adam	16 Nov.	191
470. William Adam	5 Dec.	192
1802-3
471. Richard Peake	[1802-3?]	192
1803
472. John Fonblanque	[3 Jan. 1803?]	193
473. Richard Peake	4 Jan.	193
474. James Perry	13 Mar.	194
475. [Richard Peake]	[15 Mar. 1803?]	194
476. Richard Peake	8 May	195
477. Henry Burgess	9 May [1803?]	195
478. [Lady Bessborough]	[23 May]	195
479. Lady Bessborough	[24 May]	197
480. His Wife	30 June	198
481. Richard Peake	[After June]	199
482. Charles James	1 July	199
483. Andrew Bain	31 July [1803?]	200
484. Henry Addington	29 Aug.	200
485. His Wife	31 Aug.	202

                                        

486. Sir Nathaniel Wraxall	16 Sept.	204
487. W. A. Downs		204
488. [The Lord-Lieutenant of Middlesex?]	[1803?]	205
489. William Adam	28 Sept.	206
490. [Richard Peake]	1 Oct.	206
491. W. Moreland	2 Nov. [1803?]	206
492. His Wife	10 Nov.	207
493. William Adam	16 Nov.	207
494. W. A. Downs	16 Nov.	208
495. [Charles James?]	[20 Nov.]	208
496. Sir Robert Barclay		209
1803-4
497. Sir Robert Barclay	[1803-4?]	209
498. Sir Robert Barclay	[1803-4?]	210
1804
499. Charles Ward	[25 Jan. 1804?]	210
500. The Prince of Wales	21 Feb.	210
501. Henry Addington	[21 Feb. 1804?]	211
502. John McMahon	[1804?]	213
503. General Lake	[1804?]	214
504. His Wife	27 Feb.	215
505. Richard Peake	[1804?]	217
506. Richard Peake	[1804?]	217
507. ----	[1804?]	217
508. Richard Wilson	5 Aug. [1804?]	218
509. The Prince of Wales	20 Aug.	218
510. William Chisholme	3 Sept.	220
511. [William Chisholme]	4 Sept.	221
512. Anna Maria Ogle	12 Sept.	221
513. ----	[1804?]	221
514. W. L. Bowles	12 Oct.	222
515. Richard Peake	[20 Oct.]	222
516. [The Creeveys or Mrs. Ord]	[29 Oct.]	223
517. Mrs. Lacy	[1804?]	223
518. Anna Maria Ogle	[1804?]	224
519. Richard Peake	2 Nov.	224
520. Anna Maria Ogle	3 Nov.	225
521. Richard Peake	[Nov. 1804?]	225
522. His Wife	15 Nov.	225
523. His Wife	[Nov. 1804?]	227

                                        

524. Thomas Grenville	20 Nov.	229
525. Eleanor Creevey	[Nov. 1804?]	229
526. Mrs. Lacy	25 Nov.	230
527. Thomas Grenville	27 Nov.	230
528. Thomas Grenville	[29 Nov.]	230
529. His Wife	1-4 Dec.	231
530. Henry Holland	[1804?]	234
531. C. J. Fox	17 Dec.	234
532. Richard Peake	24 Dec. [1804?]	236
533. Richard Peake	[1804?]	236
534. Richard Peake	[1804?]	236
535. Samuel Whitbread	[c. 1804]	237
1805
536. C. J. Fox	3 Jan.	237
537. Mrs. Ord	[15 Jan. 1805?]	240
538. [Sir Richard Ford]	28 Jan. [1805?]	241
539. His Wife	[7 Mar. 1805?]	241
540. Richard Peake	[11 Mar.]	241
541. William Adam	[11] Mar.	242
542. His Wife	[1805?]	242
543. His Wife	17-18 Apr.	243
544. Richard Peake	[15 Aug.]	244
545. Richard Peake	15 Aug.	245
546. Richard Peake	15 Aug.	245
547. Richard Peake	20 Aug.	246
548. Richard Peake	[27 Aug.]	246
549. Richard Peake	29 Aug.	247
550. Richard Peake	10 Sept.	247
551. Richard Peake	16 Sept.	248
552. Thomas Creevey	[c. Nov. 1805?]	248
553. Eleanor Creevey	[Nov. 1805?]	249
554. Eleanor Creevey	9 Nov.	249
555. His Wife	25 Dec.	250
556. [T. N. Longman?]	26 Dec. [1805-6]	252
557. Eleanor Creevey	28 Dec.	252
558. His Wife	29 Dec.	253
559. Richard Peake	[1805?]	256
1806
560. His Wife		256
561. His Wife	15 Jan.	256

                                          

562. [Viscount Sidmouth]	22 Jan.	257
563. [Viscount Sidmouth]	[26 Jan.]	257
564. [Viscount Sidmouth]	29 Jan.	258
565. [Viscount Sidmouth]	[30] Jan.	258
566. Richard Wilson	11 Feb.	259
567. [The Duke of Bedford]	12 Feb.	260
568. C. J. Fox	[17 Feb.]	261
569. Lord Grenville	18 Feb.	263
570. Tom Sheridan, W. Downs, and R. Peake	[1806?]	264
571. Richard Peake	18 Feb.	264
572. Richard Peake	[26 Feb.]	265
573. The Electors of Stafford	26 Feb.	265
574. George Tierney	2 Mar.	266
575. Sir Robert Barclay	9 Mar. [1806?]	267
576. The Duke of Bedford	[Mar.]	268
577. Richard Fitzpatrick	[12 Mar. 1806?]	270
578. [Richard Fitzpatrick]?	[13 Mar. 1806?]	271
579. His Wife	[1806?]	271
580. [Benjamin West?]	[1806?]	272
581. W. L. Bowles	10 Apr. [1806?]	272
582. Earl Spencer	19 Apr.	273
583. His Son Tom	14 May	274
584. Richard Wilson		274
585. Nathaniel Ogle	[1806?]	275
586. John Graham	[13 Sept.]	275
587. [Richard Wilson]	14 Sept.	276
588. Viscount Howick	16 Sept.	278
589. Lord Grenville	16 Sept.	279
590. The Prince of Wales	22 Sept.	281
591. Viscount Howick	23 Sept.	282
592. The Prince of Wales	24 Sept.	282
593. Richard Peake	1 Oct.	283
594. [Colonel John McMahon]	[Oct. 1806?]	284
595. His Sister-in-Law	[Oct. 1806?]	286
596. Viscount Howick	13 Oct.	286
597. The Prince of Wales	14 Oct.	287
598. To the Westminster Electors	20 Oct.	289
599. [William] Horton	20 Oct.	290
600. Lord Grenville	25 Oct.	290
601. William Cobbett	27 Oct.	290
602. Sir Robert Barclay	27 Oct.	291
603. To the Electors of Stafford	28 Oct.	291

                             

604. Sir Robert Barclay	[Oct.-Nov. 1806?]	292
605. [Colonel John McMahon?]	[1 Nov. 1806?]	292
606. To the Westminster Electors	5 Nov.	293
607. Lord Holland	[7 Nov.]	294
608. Lord Holland	[7 Nov.]	295
609. Lord Holland	[7 Nov.]	296
610. Lord Holland	[7 Nov.]	296
611. [Lord Holland]	[8 Nov.]	296
612. The Westminster Electors	9 Nov.	297
613. Lord Holland	[9 Nov.]	298
614. Lord Holland	[Nov.]	299
615. Lord Holland	[12 Nov. 1806?]	299
616. William Cobbett	[12 Nov.]	300
617. Peter Moore	13 Nov.	301
618. Peter Moore	13 Nov.	302
619. [W. H. Fremantle]	[Nov. 1806]	302
620. [W. H. Fremantle]	[Nov. 1806]	303
621. The Duke of Northumberland's Agent	16 Nov.	303
622. The Westminster Electors	21 Nov.	304
623. ----	[Nov. 1806 or May 1807]	305
624. Peter Moore	22 Nov.	306
625. His Wife	19 Dec.	307
1806-7
626. Sir Robert Barclay	[1806-7?]	307
627. Sir Robert Barclay		308
628. Sir Robert Barclay		308
629. Sir Robert Barclay	[1806-7?]	309
630. S. Parsons	[1806-7?]	309
631. Sir Robert Barclay	[1806-7?]	310

Volume III

                                            

1807
632. George Lamb	6 Jan.	1
633. Earl Spencer	13 Jan.	1
634. Richard Peake	22 Jan.	2
635. G. Eves	24 Mar.	2
636. Thomas Creevey	[1807?]	3
637. Eleanor Creevey	[9 Apr. 1807?]	3
638. Viscount Howick	1 May	4
639. Viscount Howick	2 May	5
640. His Son Tom	2 May	6
641. The Westminster Electors	8 May	8
642. W. A. Downs	[17 May]	8
643. The Earl of Moira	[19 May 1807?]	10
644. Richard Taylor and Peter Adshead	20 June	10
645. Aaron Graham	[24-25 June]	11
646. Viscount Howick	26 June	12
647. Aaron Graham	[27 June]	12
648. Aaron Graham, John Hosier, and Randle Jackson	28 June	13
649. Samuel Whitbread	[1807?]	16
650. Richard Peake	[1807?]	16
651. William Huskisson	25 July	17
652. Michael Kelly	30 Aug.	17
653. Thomas Holloway	14 Nov.	18
654. Richard Peake	22 Nov.	19
655. Aaron Graham, John Hosier, and Randle Jackson	10 Dec.	19
656. Richard Peake	29 Dec.	20
657. The Prince of Wales	30 Dec.	21
658. John Grubb	[c. 1807]	23
[1807-8?]
659. [Richard Peake]		23
1808
660. [The Duke of York?]	[Jan. 1808?]	24
661. Dennis O'Bryen	[19 Jan. 1808?]	25
662. Richard Peake	[Feb.-Mar. 1808?]	26
663. Colonel John McMahon	7 Mar.	26
664. The Prince of Wales	7 Mar.	27
665. Aaron Graham, John Hosier, and Randle Jackson	25 Apr.	29
666. Richard Wilson	2 May	31
667. Thomas Metcalfe	2 May	32
668. Thomas Metcalfe	5 May	33
669. [Richard Wilson?]		35
670. Mrs. Atkins	16 July [1808?]	35
671. John Hosier	23 July	36
672. The Prince of Wales	23 July	36

                                       

673. ----	9 Aug.	39
674. The Marquis of Tavistock	19 Aug.	40
675. [John Graham]	16 Sept.	41
676. To the Proprietors of £3,000 Shares	16 Sept.	41
677. Richard Peake		42
678. Richard Peake	30 Oct.	43
679. [Aaron Graham, John Hosier, and William Houlston]		43
680. Richard Peake	[Oct.-Nov.?]	43
681. Richard Wilson	[1808?]	43
682. [John Hosier]	19 Nov.	45
683. His Son Tom	[19 Nov.]	46
684. John Hosier	[Nov. 1808?]	47
685. Lady Ford	5 Dec.	47
686. Richard Peake	[24 Dec.]	48
1809
687. Richard Peake	14 Jan.	48
688. Lady Bessborough	[22 Jan. 1809?]	48
689. Richard Peake	29 Jan.	49
690. ----	31 Jan. [1809-11]	50
691. Richard Peake	[Feb. 1809?]	50
692. Richard Peake or William Dunn	[18 Feb.]	51
693. His Wife	25 Feb.	51
694. Richard Wilson	[1809?]	53
695. [Richard Wilson?]	[28 Feb.]	53
696. [The Lord Chamberlain, the Earl of Dartmouth]	1 Mar.	54
697. Aaron Graham and John Hosier	c. 7 Mar.	55
698. Aaron Graham, John Hosier, and William Houlston	7 Mar.	55
699. William Taylor	[10 Mar.]	56
700. George Rose	27 Mar.	57
701. C. Beazley	27 Mar.	58
702. John Graham	6 Apr.	58
703. Samuel Whitbread	28 May	59
704. W. James	2 June	61
705. Thomas Perkins	6 June	62
706. [S. J. Arnold]	16 June	63
707. Richard Peake	[1809?]	63
708. [General Thomas Graham]	11 July	64
709. Sarah Richardson	28 July	64
710. Sarah Richardson	5 Aug.	65

                                     

711. Sarah Richardson	8 Sept.	66
712. S. J. Arnold	[Sept. 1809?]	66
713. [S. J. Arnold?]	18 Sept.	68
714. The Prince of Wales	[c. 30 Sept.]	68
715. Richard Peake	[1809?]	68
716. Sarah Richardson	15 Oct.	69
717. [The Editor of the Morning Chronicle]	20 Oct.	70
718. William Powell	Nov.	72
1809-10
719. Richard Peake	[1809-10?]	72
720. Richard Peake		73
1810
721. ----	14 Feb.	73
722. Richard Peake	[20 Mar. 1810?]	74
723. His Wife	28 Mar.	74
724. His Wife	[16 Apr.]	75
725. Richard Peake	[17 Apr. 1810?]	76
726. His Wife	20 Apr.	77
727. His Wife	[1810?]	87
728. Richard Peake	[1810?]	88
729. The Lord Chamberlain, the Earl of Dartmouth	1 May	88
730. The Editor of the Morning Chronicle	15 May	89
731. Thomas Shaw	19 May	90
732. Richard Peake	[7 July 1810?]	90
733. The Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University	11 July	91
734. Thomas Creevey	20 July	92
735. Richard Wilson	17 Aug.	93
736. Rev. Charles Williams	22 Oct.	93
737. Rev. Charles Williams	7 Nov.	94
738. His Wife	[1810?]	94
739. The Prince of Wales	[2 Nov.]	94
740. The Prince of Wales	9 Dec.	95
741. John Graham	[1810?]	98
742. Richard Peake	[1810?]	98
1811
743. The Prince of Wales	11 Jan.	99
744. Lord Holland	15 Jan.	100

                                                                                                                          

745. Thomas Creevey	18 Jan.	107
746. Lord Holland	20 Jan.	108
747. Lord Holland	[20 Jan. 1811?]	108
748. The Speaker	[24 Jan.]	109
749. His Wife	[27 Jan.]	109
750. The Prince of Wales	[Jan. 1811?]	110
751. The Prince of Wales	1 Feb. 1811	112
752. John Graham	[1811?]	112
753. John Graham	[1811?]	113
754. [John Graham?]	[1811?]	113
755. [His Wife]	[Feb. 1811?]	114
756. [His Wife]	[Feb. 1811?]	114
757. His Wife	[c. 14 Feb.]	115
758. [Samuel Parr?]		115
759. John Walter, Junior	[Mar. 1811?]	116
760. Thomas Shaw	15 Mar.	116
761. His Son Tom	[1811?]	117
762. Samuel Whitbread	[30 Apr.]	117
763. Sir Charles Bunbury	5 May	118
764. The Attorney-General	8 May	119
765. The Prince Regent	24 May	120
766. His Wife	[24 May 1811?]	121
767. Richard Peake		123
768. Richard Peake	[Before June]	123
769. Eleanor Creevey		124
770. Sir Robert Barclay	June	124
771. Thomas Shaw	3 July	125
772. Lord Holland	July	125
773. William Adam	[Aug.]	125
774. Sir Robert Barclay	[10 Sept.]	126
775. Thomas Shaw	12 Sept.	126
776. ----		127
777. J. W. Croker	[14 Oct.]	127
778. The Prince Regent	17 Oct.	128
779. [Thomas Shaw]		129
780. [Thomas Shaw?]	[1811?]	129
781. Samuel Whitbread	[Late Oct.-early Nov.]	130
782. His Son Tom	[Nov.]	134
783. S. Jernyngham	25 Nov.	135
784. Sir Oswald Mosley	29 Nov.	136
785. Thomas Perkins	29 Nov.	137
786. General T. H. Turner	29 Dec.	138
1811-12
787. Dr. Ward		139
788. John Kenderdine		139
789. Richard Peake	[1811-12?]	140
790. Rev. Mr. Rathbone		141
791. Richard Peake	[1811-12?]	141
792. Richard Peake	[1811-12?]	142
793. A Stafford Supporter	[1811-12?]	142
794. Thomas Perkins	[1811-12?]	143
795. Richard Peake	[1811-12?]	143
796. Sir J. W. Gordon		143
797. Sir Robert Barclay		144
798. M. Edmondson		144
1812
799. Lady Holland	[Early Jan.]	145
800. His Wife	[3 Feb. 1812?]	147
801. His Son Tom	7 Mar.	149
802. His Son Tom		151
803. [Richard Fitzpatrick]	[1812?]	152
804. Colonel John McMahon	25 Apr.	153
805. Sir Vicary Gibbs	5 May	154
806. The Prince Regent	21 May	155
807. Lady Holland	[24 May 1812?]	157
808. Marquis Wellesley	26 May	157
809. The Prince Regent	1 June	158
810. His Son Tom	2 June	159
811. Colonel John McMahon	16 June	160
812. One of his Sisters	24 July	161
813. Lady Holland		161
814. [W. A. Downs?]	[Aug.-Nov. 1812?]	162
815. Samuel Whitbread	1 Nov.	163
816. The Committee for Rebuilding	3 Nov.	164
Drury Lane Theatre
817. Colonel John McMahon	[1812?]	164
818. ----	3 Dec.	165
819. [Thomas Metcalfe]	[1812?]	166
820. ----	13 Dec.	166
1812-13
821. [Colonel John McMahon]		167
----	[1812-15]	168
1813
823. [Colonel John McMahon]	[Early 1813?]	168
824. George Colman the younger	[1813?]	169
825. Lord and Lady Holland		169
826. ----	[1813?]	170
827. W. J. Denison	[1813?]	171
828. His Stafford supporters	[Apr.]	171
829. His Wife	[Before 5 May]	173
830. Richard Peake	[1813?]	173
831. [S. J. Arnold?]	[13 May 1813?]	174
832. His Son Charles	15 May	174
833. His Son Tom	30 July	175
834. Robins and Reid	[31 July]	177
835. His Wife		177
836. R. B. Peake		178
837. Viscount Sidmouth	13 Aug.	178
838. Henry Burgess	[1813?]	179
839. Richard Wilson	[1813?]	179
840. Graham, Ward, and Morland	6 Oct.	180
1813-14
841. Lady Holland	[1813-14?]	180
1814
842. Charles Ward	2 Jan.	180
843. Charles Ward	[19 Jan. 1814?]	181
844. James Heath	[27 Jan. 1814?]	181
845. Charles Ward	[1814?]	182
846. Charles Ward	4 Feb.	183
847. Charles Ward	10 Feb.	183
848. Charles Ward	17 Feb.	184
849. ----	[Feb.]	185
850. Thomas McGrath	[1814?]	185
851. Samuel Whitbread	[9 Apr.]	186
852. Charles Ward	Apr. [1814?]	186
853. Samuel Whitbread	[May 1814?]	187
854. Samuel Whitbread	May	187
855. Graham		189
856. John Graham	22 June	189
857. Colonel John McMahon		190
858. The Duke of Norfolk	5 July	191
859. Arthur Morris, High Bailiff of West-minster	10 July	191

                                        

860. Arthur Morris	12 July	193
861. [Colonel John McMahon]	27 July	193
862. [Colonel John McMahon]	[1814?]	195
863. J. W. Croker	29 July	196
864. Thomas Shaw	4 Aug.	196
865. Anna Maria Ogle		197
866. Anna Maria Ogle	[1814?]	197
867. ----		197
868. Sir John Cox Hippisley	Sept.	198
869. Anna Maria Ogle	[1814?]	198
870. Charles Ward	11 Sept.	199
871. Thomas Metcalfe	19 Sept.	199
872. ----	[1814?]	200
873. Charles Ward	19 Sept.	200
874. Anna Maria Ogle	[Sept.]	201
875. Georgiana and Fanny Callander	2 Oct.	201
876. His Wife	[15 Oct. 1814?]	202
877. Samuel Whitbread	6 Nov.	203
878. Samuel Whitbread	7 Nov.	204
879. G. Watkins	7 Nov.	204
880. [Douglas Kinnaird?]	7 Nov.	205
881. His Wife	Nov.	205
882. His Wife	[1814?]	207
883. Henry Burgess	[1814?]	208
884. Henry Burgess		208
885. Henry Burgess	21 Nov.[?]	209
886. Samuel Whitbread	[Nov.]	210
887. Charles Ward	30 Nov.	210
888. Charles Ward		211
889. Charles Ward	[1814?]	212
890. Charles Ward	[5 Dec. 1814?]	212
891. Charles Ward	[1814?]	213
892. Charles Ward		213
893. Charles Ward	23 Dec.	213
1815
894. Lord Holland	[1815?]	214
895. Georgiana Callander	28 Jan.	214
896. Mrs. Ironmonger	6 Feb.	216
897. His Wife	[Feb.-Mar.]	216
898. His Wife	[c. 1 Mar.]	217

                                         

899. His Wife	[c. 1 Mar.]	218
900. His Son Charles	4 Mar.	219
901. Samuel Whitbread	7 Mar.	220
902. His Wife	[Mar.]	220
903. Anna Maria Ogle	31 Mar.	221
904. W. Hartley	5 Apr.	221
905. His Wife	25 Apr.	222
906. His Wife	[Early May]	223
907. Richard Wilson	27 May	225
908. His Son Charles	[6 July]	225
909. His Son Charles	10 July	226
910. Thomas Grenville	July	227
911. [Georgiana and Fanny Callander]	[c. Aug.]	227
912. His Wife	Aug.	227
913. Georgiana and Fanny Callander	Aug. [1815?]	229
914. [James Henry Earle?]	[1815?]	229
915. [Viscount Sidmouth]	6 Oct.	229
916. Viscount Sidmouth	19 Oct.	230
917. Thomas Dibdin		233
918. [Colonel John McMahon]	21 Oct.	233
919. Sir William Beechey	28 Oct.	236
920. To the Lord Mayor Of London and Sheriffs	9 Nov.	236
921. Kate Ogle	22 Nov.	236
922. His Wife	22 Nov.	237
923. Thomas Grenville	1 Dec.	239
924. Kate Ogle, and his Wife	7 Dec.	240
925. Henry Cline	31 Dec.	242
1815-16
926. His Wife		242
1816
927. Thomas Howard	22 Jan.	242
928. [Frederic Reynolds?]	[1816?]	243
929. John Taylor	[1816?]	244
930. Mrs. Richard Wilson	[Mar. 1816?]	244
931. Georgiana and Fanny Callander	30 Mar.	245
932. John Murray	9 Apr.	245
933. John Graham	9 May	246
934. Samuel Rogers	[15 May]	246
935. William Chisholme	25 May	247
936. Georgiana Callander	[1816?]	247
937. A. Chateauneuf		248

SUMMARY OF OTHER LETTERS

         

A. To His Wife, Hester. Nos. 1-7.		249
B. To John Grubb. Nos. 1-47.		249
C. To Willoughby Lacy. Nos. 1-17.		254
D. To Richard Peake. Nos. 1-98.		256
E. To Various Correspondents. Nos. 1-147.		265
F. Departmental Letters. Nos. 1-5.		282
G. Letters in Sheridan's Hand drafted for a Copyist. Nos. 1-17.		282
H. References in other Correspondence to lost Sheridan Letters. Nos. 1-16.		287
I. Letters doubtfully ascribed to Sheridan. Nos. 1-7.		288

APPENDIX OF FURTHER LETTERS

                     

1. The Printer of the Morning Chronicle	[29 Jan.-1 Feb. 1775 ]	292
2. [Thomas Linley]	[1775]	293
3. John Bromley	4 Jan. 1778	307
4. 'The Freeholders of England'	Mar. 1779	308
5. --------	[1789-91]	315
6. [Prospective Subscribers to the Re-building
of Drury Lane Theatre]	5 Nov. 1791	316
7. Thomas Greenwood	[1794-7]	322
8. [Members of the Piscatory Party]	[After 1794]	322
9. --------	1 Aug. 1795	326
10. --------	13 Oct. 1795	326
11. 'Mr. Graham'	[1795-1801]	326
12. [A Member of the Lord Chamberlain's Staff]	23 May 1797	327
13. [George Canning]	[24 Apr. 1798?]	327
14. Lord Holland	[July 1797-Nov. 1801?]
15. Richard Peake or William Dunn	8 Jan. 1800	329
16. [George Canning]	[19 July 1800?]	329
17. Lord or Lady Holland	[22 Dec. 1800?]	330
18. William Godwin	6 Jan. 1802[?]	330
19. Charles Ward	[3 Jan. 1806]	331
20. Arthur Morris, High Bailiff of Westminster	Nov. 1806	331

               

21. [C. ?] James	7 Oct. [1807]	332
22. Richard Peake	[1808?]	333
23. Thomas Harris	1808	333
24. --------	27 Sept.1808-12]	334
	[1808-12]	334
26. Sir Arthur Pigott	25 Dec. 1809	335
27. 'Performers'	1810 [?]	335
28. 'The Kings Most Excellent Majesty'	6 Sept. 1810	336
29. The Editor of the British Press	[1809-10]	339
30. --------	June 1811	341
31. The Committee for Rebuilding Drury Lane Theatre	14 Feb. 1812	341
32. Samuel Rogers	[1813-16]	341
33. [Thomas Dibdin?]	1 Feb. 1816	342
34. Charles Ward	1816	342
35. George Canning	19 June [1816]	342

Abbreviations Used in the Notes

Here and throughout, place of publication is London unless otherwise noted

                     

Adam MS.	Manuscript owned by Captain C. K. Adam, Blair-Adam, Fifeshire.
Add. MS.	Additional MS., British Museum.
Alnwick MSS.	Manuscripts of the Duke of Northumberland, at Alnwick Castle.
Angelo	Reminiscences of Henry Angelo ... (1828-30, 2 vols.).
A.P.C.	Autograph Prices Current (ed. E. H. Courville and A. J. Herbert, 1916-22, 6 vols.).
Auckland Corr.	The Journal and Correspondence of William Lord Auckland (1861, 4 vols.).
Bell's W. Mess.	Bell's Weekly Messenger, 1796-1807.
Beresford Corr.	The Correspondence of the Rt. Hon. John Beresford ... (ed. W. Beresford, 1854, 2 vols.).
Black	Clementina Black, The Linleys of Bath (rev. ed., 1926).
Campbell	John, Lord Campbell, The Lives of the Lord Chancellors (1845-9, 8 vols.).
Canning MSS.	Mehitabel Canning's correspondence, owned by Mrs. Alfred Western Sadler's Butler MSS.
C.G.Th.	The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden.
Clayden	P. W. Clayden, Rogers and His Contemporaries (1889, 2 vols.).
Clements MS.	Manuscript in the W. L. Clements Library, University of Michigan.
Colchester Corr.	The Diary and Correspondence of Charles Abbot, Lord Colchester (ed. Charles Abbot, Lord Colchester, 1861, 3 vols.).
Cornwallis Corr.	The Correspondence of Charles, first Marquis Cornwallis (ed. C. Ross, 2nd ed., 1859, 3 vols.).
Court and Cabinets	R. P. T. N. B. C. Grenville, Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third (1853-5, 2 vols.).
Cradock	J. Cradock, Literary and Miscellaneous Memoirs (1828, 4 vols.).
Creevey Papers	The Creevey Papers (ed. Sir H. Maxwell, 1903, 2 vols.).
D.L.Th.	The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
Dock.	Docketing in a contemporary hand.

                        

Dropmore Papers	Historical Manuscripts Commission's Reports on the Manuscripts of J. B. Fortescue, Esq., Preserved at Dropmore (1892-1927, 10 vols.).
Dufferin MSS.	Manuscripts of the Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava.
Egerton MS.	Egerton MS., British Museum.
Europ. Mag.	European Magazine, 1782-1826.
Farington	The Farington Diary (ed. J. Greig, 1922-8, 8 vols.).
Fitzwilliam MS.	Manuscript owned by Earl Fitzwilliam, deposited at Sheffield Public Library.
Folger MS.	Manuscript in the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
Foster	J. Foster, Alumni Oxionienses, 1751-1886 (4 vols., 1888).
Fox Corr.	Memorials and Correspondence of Charles James Fox (ed. Lord J. Russell, 1853-7, 4 vols.).
Fr.	Franked.
Garrick Corr.	The Private Correspondence of David Garrick (ed. J. Boaden, 1831-2, 2 vols.).
Georgiana	Georgiana: Extracts from the Correspondence of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (ed. The Earl of Bessborough, 1955.)
Gent. Mag.	Gentleman's Magazine, 1751-1825.
Gilmore MS.	Manuscript owned by Mr. Paul M. Gilmore.
Grey MSS.	Correspondence of Charles, 2nd Earl Grey, deposited by Earl Grey at Prior's Kitchen, University of Durham, Durham.
Grubbe MS.	Manuscript owned by Miss Margaret J. M. Grubbe.
Gun	The Harrow School Register, 1751-1800 (ed. W. J. T. Gun, 1934).
Hansard	Cobbett's (afterwards Hansard's) Parliamentary Debates, 1803-16.
Harrow MS.	Manuscript in the Vaughan Library, Harrow School. Where 'Rae' is also mentioned in this location, the reference is to the MS. letters there, bound in extra-illustrated volumes of Rae's Sheridan.
Harvard MS.	Manuscript in the Theatre Collection, Harvard College Library.
H.M.C.	Historical Manuscripts Commission.
Hist. Westm. El.	History of the Westminster and Middlesex Elections in the Month of November, 1806 (1807).
Hodgson	Messrs. Hodgson, Chancery Lane, W.C. 2.
Holland	Henry Fox, 3rd Lord Holland, Memoirs of the Whig Party (1852-4, 2 vols.).

                      

Holland House MSS.	Manuscripts of the Earl of Ilchester.
Huntington	Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Hyde MS.	Manuscript owned by Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hyde, Somerville, New Jersey.
Judd	Gerrit P. Judd, iv, Members of Parliament, 1734-1832 (New Haven, 1955).
Kelly	Reminiscences of Michael Kelly ... (2nd ed., 1826, 2 vols.).
Leeds' Mem.	The Political Memoranda of the 5th Duke of Leeds (ed. O. Browning, Camden Society, 1884).
LeFanu MS.	Manuscript owned by Mr. W. R. LeFanu.
Lefanu	Alicia Lefanu, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Frances Sheridan (1824).
Leinster Corr.	Correspondence of Emily, Duchess of Leinster, 1731-1814 (ed. B. Fitzgerald, Irish Manuscripts Commission, Dublin, 1949-57, 3 vols.).
Letters of Geo. IV	The Letters of King George IV, 1812-1830 (ed. A. Aspinall, 1938, 3 vols.).
Leveson Gower Corr.	Lord Granville Leveson Gower (First Earl Granville), Private Correspondence, 1781 to 1821 (ed. Castalia, Countess Granville, 1917, 2 vols.).
Lond. Chron.	London Chronicle, 1769-80.
McAdam MS.	Manuscript owned by Mr. E.L. McAdam, Jr.
Maggs Catalogue	Catalogue of Messrs. Maggs Bros., London, W. 1.
Minto Corr.	Life and Letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto (ed. the Countess of Minto, 1874, 3 vols.).
Moore	Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan (2nd ed., 1825, 2 vols.).
Moore, Journal	Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore (ed. Lord John Russell, 1853-6, 8 vols.).
Morn. Chron.	Morning Chronicle, 1775-1816.
Morn. Her.	Morning Herald, 1782-1816.
Morn. Post	Morning Post, 1775-1816.
Morrison Cat.	Catalogue of the Collection of Autograph Letters and Historical Documents formed between 1865 and 1882 by Alfred Morrison (part ed. A. Thibaudeau, 1883-92, 6 vols.).
Mrs. S.	Until 1793 this refers to Sheridan's first wife, Elizabeth Ann Sheridan (born Linley), 1754-92. After 1793 it refers to his second wife, Hester Jane Sheridan (born Ogle), c. 1775-1817.

                         

Myers	Messrs. Myers, 59 High Holborn, W.C. 1; and Miss Winifred A. Myers.
New M. Mag.	New Monthly Magazine, 1814-71.
N.L.I. MS.	Manuscript of the National Library of Ireland, Dublin.
N.L.S. MS.	Manuscript of the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh.
Ogle	Sir Henry A. Ogle, Bart., Ogle and Bothal: Or, A History of the Baronies of Ogle, Bothal and Hepple ... (Newcastle upon Tyne, 1902).
Osborn MS.	Manuscript owned by Dr. James M. Osborn of Yale University.
Parl. Reg.	The Parliamentary Register (ed. J. Debrett, 1783-96, 45 vols.).
P. & S. C.	Sale catalogues of Messrs. Puttick & Simpson, London, W. 1.
Parr, Works	Samuel Parr, Works (ed. J. Johnstone, 1828, 8 vols.).
Pellew	George Pellew, The Life and Correspondence of the Rt. Hon. Henry Addington, First Viscount Sidmouth (1847, 3 vols.).
[Ph.]	A photographic copy of the manuscript has been the source of the text.
Pm.:	Postmark. This is printed only when it is necessary as evidence establishing the date of a letter.
Price MS.	Manuscript owned by Cecil Price.
P.R.O.	Public Record Office, London.
Pub.	Location of the first printing of the text that follows.
Pub. Adv.	Public Advertiser, 1769-80.
Rae	W. Fraser Rae, Sheridan, A Biography (1896, 2 vols.).
Rhodes	R. Crompton Rhodes, Harlequin Sheridan (Oxford, 1933).
Rose	George Rose, The Diaries and Correspondence of the Rt. Hon. George Rose (ed. L. V. Harcourt, 1860, 2 vols.).
S.	Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816).
Sadler	Michael T. H. Sadler, The Political Career of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Oxford, 1912.)
Salt MS.	Manuscript of the William Salt Library, Stafford.
S.C.	Sale catalogues of Messrs. Sotheby, London, and of the varying names of the firm from 1814 to 1964.
Shuttleworth MS.	Manuscript owned by Mr. Bertram Shuttleworth.
Sichel	W. Sichel, Sheridan (1909, 2 vols.).

               

Smyth	[William Smyth], Memoir of Mr. Sheridan (Leeds, 1840).
Speeches	Speeches of the late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan (ed. 'A Constitutional Friend' [Sir John Philippart?], 1816, 5 vols.).
Staff. Adv.	Staffordshire Advertiser, 1796-16.
Taylor	John Taylor, Records of my Life (1832, 2 vols.).
T.L.S.	The Times Literary Supplement, 1902-64.
Tom S.	Tom Sheridan (1775-1817).
Watkins	John Watkins, Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of the Right Honourable R. B. Sheridan ... (2nd ed. 1817, 2 vols.).
Whitbread MS.	Manuscript owned by Mr. Simon Whitbread.
Widener MS.	Manuscript in the Harry Elkins Widener Collection in the Harvard College Library.
Windsor MS.	Manuscript in the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle.
Winston	Manuscripts and newspaper cuttings collected by James Winston, and now in the British Museum (press-mark, C 120 h). There are fourteen boxes for the period 1776-1816, but their contents are unfoliated.
Wm.:	Dated watermark (or countermark) in the paper on which Sheridan's letter is written. This evidence is printed only when it is necessary to establish a date.
Wraxall	Sir N. W. Wraxall, Posthumous Memoirs of His Own Times (2nd ed. 1836, 3 vols.).
W.T.	Typescript copies of Sheridan MSS. formerly in the possession of Sophie, Lady Wavertree. These copies contain a number of obvious typing errors, and I have silently corrected them when quoting from the typescripts.
Yale MS.	Manuscript in the Yale University Library.