Manuscripts
John Baldwin Buckstone list of plays and his letter to "My Dear Sir,"
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- Description
- The autograph manuscript is a list of plays written by Buckstone (1841, HM 63334) and the letter is to My Dear Sir (1853, HM 63335).
- Production date
- 1841 and 1853.
- Call number
- mssHM 63334-63335
- Provenance
- Removed from Rare Book 287501; transferred from the Rare Books Dept., May 1981. This manuscript and letter are two of a group of 35 letters and manuscripts written, mainly, by 19th century British actors and actresses; a small number were written by American, French, and Italian performers. The material was collected by Augustin Daly (1838-1899), an American playwright and producer, and bound in a volume entitled, Bills of the play, New York, 1892. The 35 items have been cataloged separately (HM 63331-63365) and a complete list of the letters and manuscripts is available from the Manuscripts Dept.
