GARRICK, David (1717-1779). Autograph letter signed, to the Rev.d Mr Kaye, London, 2 October 1769, 2 pages, 4to , with integral address leaf and seal. Garrick is 'in ye midst of Players Musicians & Machinists to consult about bringing ye Jubilee to Drury Lane'. His most successful piece, the processional entertainment, The Jubilee which took place in 1769, had been in danger of becoming a fiasco. Having received the freedom of Stratford upon Avon in May 1769, Garrick was asked by its corporation to steward the first Shakespeare Jubilee in September. The great festival which he had planned however, with its fireworks, amphitheatre and banquets, was rained out in spectacular fashion and Garrick almost brought to ridicule. In the present letter Garrick refers to this disaster 'if the Heavens had favor'd us - we should have return'd to Town in triumph'. However the grand procession of Shakespearean characters did turn into a triumph when put on at Drury Lane, where it was staged ninety-one times between 14 October and the and end of season. Apparently unpublished, not in D.M. Little & George M. Kahrl, Letters , 1963.
GARRICK, David (1717-1779). Autograph letter signed, to the Rev.d Mr Kaye, London, 2 October 1769, 2 pages, 4to , with integral address leaf and seal. Garrick is 'in ye midst of Players Musicians & Machinists to consult about bringing ye Jubilee to Drury Lane'. His most successful piece, the processional entertainment, The Jubilee which took place in 1769, had been in danger of becoming a fiasco. Having received the freedom of Stratford upon Avon in May 1769, Garrick was asked by its corporation to steward the first Shakespeare Jubilee in September. The great festival which he had planned however, with its fireworks, amphitheatre and banquets, was rained out in spectacular fashion and Garrick almost brought to ridicule. In the present letter Garrick refers to this disaster 'if the Heavens had favor'd us - we should have return'd to Town in triumph'. However the grand procession of Shakespearean characters did turn into a triumph when put on at Drury Lane, where it was staged ninety-one times between 14 October and the and end of season. Apparently unpublished, not in D.M. Little & George M. Kahrl, Letters , 1963.
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