Sarah Siddons to Emily Duchess of Leinster

Suggesting that she call upon the Duchess. She sends her 'very best compliments to Mr Ogilvie and my kind and affectionate remembrances to the rest of the family' Signs herself 'most truly affectionate and eternally obliged S. Siddons' (The Duchess married Mr Ogilvie, her children's tutor, in 1774 the year after the death of her husband the Duke. She met Mrs Siddons for the first time when she was playing in Dublin in 1783 and that began the friendship between them).