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Garrick, David, (1717-1779), actor

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Surname: Garrick
Forenames: David
Gender: Male
Date: 1717-1779
Biography: ODNB link for Garrick, David (1717-1779), actor
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P141111 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P11014 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for David Garrick
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
corresp and papers (2220 items in 43 vols)
Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, National Art Library
Forster Collection
NRA 38887 Forster
2
corresp
Garrick Club Library
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
3
1750-79: papers (3 vols)
Harvard University: Houghton Library
See Hamer, Archives and MSS in USA 1961
4
1749-78: letters (16) written by him and received (10), drafts of three poems
Harvard University: Houghton Library
MS Hyde 6
5
1766-1818: bills (111) for decorating, furniture, fabric, costumes, property, wages, taxes etc
Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, National Art Library
MSL.1992/5
NRA 38891 V & A Museum
6
1767-94: letters and executors papers
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
NRA 4523 Shakespeare misc

See BRA archivist's report June 1988
7
papers
Hereford Museum and Art Gallery
See ASLIB Directory of Literary and Historical Collections 1993
8
c1740: ms of 'Lethe: or, Esop in the Shades'
Manchester University: University of Manchester Library
GB 133 Eng MS 57
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
9
misc corresp
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS 25442, 25437, 25444
10
corresp and papers (12 items)
Boston Public Library
NRA 11046 Boston Library
11
1751-61: corresp with Thomas Birch
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add.MS.4308 ff.37-46
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
12
1768-1778: corresp with James Boswell
Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library
GEN MSS 89
NRA 22146 Boswell
13
1764-77: corresp with Edmund Burke
Sheffield City Archives
WWM
NRA 1083 Wentworth Woodhouse

See Copeland & Smith, Corresp of Burke, 1955
14
1749-64: letters to 4th Duke and Duchess of Devonshire
Devonshire Collection Archives, Chatsworth
/16
NRA 20594 Cavendish
15
letters to Evan Lloyd
National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services
NLW MSS 9664B, 10582E
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
16
1768=9-70: letters to William Julius Mickle (copies)
British Library, Manuscript Collections
RP251-252
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
17
c1759-1800: letters (82) to Countess Spencer
British Library, Manuscript Collections
NRA 10410 Spencer
18
letters to Charles Yorke
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 35350
19
MS copy of 'Ragandjaw'
Norfolk Record Office
WKC 7/48
NRA 4644 Ketton-Cremer
20
1747-1816: papers rel to Drury Lane Theatre
Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, Theatre and Performance Archives
See Accessions to Repositories 1972
21
1761-99: licenses to perform, assignments and family corresp
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: William Salt Library
146 511-4
NRA 8254 Salt's
22
1766-68: accounts rel to property
Royal Academy of Arts
NRA 14837 Royal Academy
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Garrick, Eva Marie, (1724-1822), dancer
spouse
Family