THE OLD SWANSEA THEATRE
... TO THE EDITOR OF THE ERA. Sir,-Paragraphs which have appeared recording the pulling down of the old Theatre Rojal, Swansea, seem to me to require correction. Charles Mathews could not have appeared in that theatre in 1795, because it was not opened until 1806. The theatre referred to in Mathews's letter of 179:5 was an earlier house on a totally different site. Mathews did, however, in 1816, ...