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Whitbread, Samuel, 1764-1815. Samuel Whitbread correspondence concerning the Drury Lane Theatre, 1811-1815 (MS Thr 829): Guide.Administrative InformationNo accession number. Purchase; received: 1955 May 31. See also MS Thr 527 and MS Thr 816 for additional papers on this topic. Processed by: Bonnie B. Salt Preferred Citation for Publication:Samuel Whitbread Correspondence Concerning the Drury Lane Theatre, 1811-1815 (MS Thr 829). Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University. There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research. This collection is not housed at the Houghton Library but is shelved offsite at the Harvard Depository. Retrieval requires advance notice. Readers should check with Houghton Public Services staff to determine what material is offsite and retrieval policies and times. Return to the Table of Contents Samuel Whitbread (1764–1815) was a British politician. He was the only son and third child of Samuel Whitbread (1720–1796), brewer and politician, and his first wife, Harriet, daughter of William Hayton, attorney, of Ivinghoe, Buckinghamshire. When the Drury Lane Theatre burned down in 1809, theater owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan was financially ruined. Sheridan turned to his old friend Samuel Whitbread to head a committee that would manage the company, deal with the theater's complex debts, and oversee the rebuilding. Whitbread asked Sheridan to withdraw from management himself, which he did entirely by 1811. Thomas Shaw (ca. 1760-ca. 1830) was one of the many claimants against the management of the Drury Lane Theatre. Return to the Table of Contents Autograph manuscript letters related to Thomas Shaw's dispute with the management of the Drury Lane Theatre. Includes letters from Samuel Whitbread to Shaw, Richard Brinsley Sheridan to Whitbread, and Sheridan to Charles Sheridan. Return to the Table of Contents Organized into the following series: I. Letters from WhitbreadII. Other letters Return to the Table of Contents |