{"id":642,"date":"2016-05-13T22:27:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T02:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/?p=642"},"modified":"2016-08-24T10:57:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T14:57:06","slug":"suid191","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/?p=642","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Medwin, &#8220;Letter to Mary Shelley, 27 March 1827&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"aei-root\" lang=\"en-GB\"><!-- suid=191 --><\/p>\n<dl id=\"aei-dl-meta\">\n<dt>Performer Name:<\/dt>\n<dd> Sgricci<\/dd>\n<dt>Performance Venue:<\/dt>\n<dd>Paris<\/dd>\n<dt>Performance Date:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\">&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Author:<\/dt>\n<dd> Medwin, Thomas<\/dd>\n<dt>Date Written:<\/dt>\n<dd> 1827<\/dd>\n<dt>Language:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\"> English<\/dd>\n<dt>Publication Title:<\/dt>\n<dd>&nbsp; <\/dd>\n<dt>Article Title:<\/dt>\n<dd>&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Page Numbers:<\/dt>\n<dd> 216<\/dd>\n<dt>Additional Info:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\">Qtd from Ernest J. Lovell, Jr., <i>Captain Medwin: Friend of Byron and Shelley<\/i> (Austin: U of Texas P, 1962)<\/dd>\n<dt>Publisher:<\/dt>\n<dd> &nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Place of Publication:<\/dt>\n<dd> &nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Date Published:<\/dt>\n<dd> &nbsp;<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"aei-one-line-down\"><strong>Text:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"aei-blockquote\">\n<p>Sgricci has given up Improvising&mdash;at least before the English, of whom he has taken a thorough hatred&mdash;He came back from England foaming at the Mouth like a Mad Dog &amp; his Rabies has not yet left him.<\/p>\n<p>At Paris they have struck a Gold Medal in his Honor &amp; he has published a Drama on the subject of Missolonghi&mdash;taken down in Short Hand from an Improvisation at Paris&mdash;rather calm stuff.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"aei-one-line-down\"><strong>Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"aei-blocktext\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<dl id=\"aei-dl-meta-unimportant\">\n<dt>Collected by:<\/dt>\n<dd> AE<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medwin writes that Sgricci will not improvise for an English audience. Sgricci has published a drama based on his poetic improvisation in Paris. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,134],"tags":[50,73],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2348,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/2348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}