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Show TTLLIDGE'S "Ql'EEN ELIZABETH." ELIZA-BETH." alt Lake CiTy, Jar 2S. '79. dic.i : 77. Tu'.UJ.jc, Esq , Ciry. Dear Hir. He-iring of the advent of ytur new dramatic creation, ' E'izibeth, Queen of England," and a cumber of us having been preseut at Die successful reading of the same, lately given in tins city, we take plei.eura in congratulating you, as an author, ou the birth of what we con aider yuur noblest literary conception. We ekem your "Elizibelb," poetically poeti-cally and dramatically, a production of uuuual merit, of which not only yousell, but your fellow citizens in genera! may feel justly proud; and in view of this and that we learn it is your intention, shortly, to submit ii to the approval of a British audience in the city of London, we deeire to show our appreciation of your ability as an author, and your play as a mabterpiece, by requesting that Elizibe;h" be first produced upon the boards of the Salt Lake theatre, tc receive its initial triumph at the hands ol its friends, and go abroad sustained by compliments and good .vbben bastd upon a better knowledge of its our. tit. Rrpeclfjlly, Jnhn T. P:iinfi. Charon W. Pnmw Orson F. Whitney, James A. Thompson, Thomp-son, Eliza R. Snow, Batbeheba W. Smith, H. M. Wells. Byron Groo, W. C. Dunbar, J&hn E Evans, S. W. ; Darke. R. W. Slom, H. L. A. Cul-mer, Cul-mer, Eliaa A. Smith, Louisa F. Weils, T. G. Webber, A. W. Carlson, H. W. Naiabitt, Mark Croxall, Annie Wells, John Lyon, D. O. Calder, Alex. C. Pyper, Charles W. Stayner, Daniel H. Wells, Philip MargetiB, Wm. Jennings, Phebe W. Wood ru ft, S. M. Kimball, S. M. Hey wood, H T. King, Zina D. Young, and others. |