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GARRICK, DAVID. Autograph letter signed ("D.G.") to [Richard] Berenger (author of works on horsemanship, poet and essayist), n.p., n.d., one page, 4to, mounted on stiff paper : "I have corrected ye Lines I sent You & have made them much better -- Exempli Gratia. Inscription for House . Britons behold the Glory of Yr Isle: Nor tell what Ancient Art, & Worth have been; Greece never Saw a fairer, nobler Pile, Nor Old Rome boast more Virtue than Within." With a few revisions by Garrick in the quatrain and a revised line at bottom to replace the second line of verse--MASON, WILLIAM. Autograph letter signed to the Rev. William Warburton, London, 29 May 1759, one page, 4to, gilt edges, integral blank leaf endorsed on verso by David Garrick : "Letter from Wm. Mason to Dr. Warburton about our Misunderstanding." Mason writes: "Mr. Knapton [his publisher] has my orders to send a Copy of Caractacus to you in the Bath Booksellers parcel. I resolved for many reasons not to make any Presents of this Poem, but I have more reasons with regard to Dr Warburton to induce me to break thro my general rule...I am as ready as Mr Garrick can be to make up the trivial breach between us. I go to morrow to Hampshire...& on my return will make it my first business to wait upon Mr Garrick, when you may depend upon it, that it shall not be my fault, if our meeting be not such as you say it should be 'That of Friends who never had any difference...'"--ROBERTSON, Dr . WILLIAM (historian). Autograph letter signed to David Garrick [London?], 11 May, n.y., 2 1/2 pages, 4to, with address panel, integral second leaf inlaid, two small marginal repairs, slight split in center fold, endorsed on verso of second sheet by Garrick : "Dr. Robertson's Letter to me about a Tragedy." The letter regards a play, The Prince of Tunis , by an unnamed author, that Robertson had sent in manuscript to Garrick for his critical reaction. The first two letters with typed transcripts. (Milne) (3)