E. Kemble letter to T. P. Cooke, 1833 May 28

              Dear Sir 

As an intimate friend of all my Family, I have taken the liberty of addressing you, to solicit your kind influence, and recommendation if possib1e, of a respectable, and punctual Tenant for this Circuit, which will very soon be to Let. 
I have been so long out of the Theatrical World that the manner of all Managers, and Performers are strangers to me, and I scarcely know who are capable of such an undertaking, and who are not. -Mr Beverly, and his sons, have had the circuit nearly two years, and have,I believe, conducted it with respectability, and satisfaction to the Public in genera1--he had much to struggle with at his commencement, cholera raging at the time, and many other things to encounter, not withstanding had it not been for the arrival of the circus people. towards the end of his Season at Sunderland, who swept all before them, he would still have found it answers his purpose, at least the business was sufficiently good to allow him a livelihood for himself, and family and paid his way, which is all that can be expected . 
(in) times like the present. In consequence, of the