Event Comment: HHopkins MS Memorandum Book:
Mrs Barry sent word she was so ill she could not come out for
the Pageant [
The Jubilee]. If she did she could not play in
the Mourning Bride on Monday. I waited on her by
the manager's orders & told her
they would excuse her playing on Monday if she would come out & do her part in Pageant; & as it was a thing of great consequence to
them,
they desir'd and expected as she had begun it [as
the Tragic Muse] that she would continue it as long as she was able. Her answer was, that as
they seem'd to think it of such consequence she would come out & do it tonight & Monday night, but after that desir'd to be excus'd from do[ing] it. On Tuesday Morning
Mr Barry sent a note that Mrs Barry was ill in her Bed & could not come out till she was better.
Tancred & Sigismunda was call'd, and I did not receive
the note till
the rehearsal was begun. I also on Saturday deliver'd a message to Mrs Barry from
Mr Garrick that he would never ask her to play in anything in which he was particularly interested. Her answer was that was in his Rage. But if his mind should alter, she was ready and willing to do anything he would desire her to do