Manuscripts

Edmund Kean letter to "My Dear Sir,"

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Description: Also slip of paper with Kean's autograph, dated Feb. 28, 1825.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1829?
Call number: mssHM 63344
Creator: Kean, Edmund (1787-1833)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Removed from Rare Book 287501; transferred from the Rare Books Dept., May 1981. This letter is one 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 Yorkm 1892. The 35 items have been cataloged separately (HM 63331-63365) and a complete list of the material is available from the Manuscripts Dept.

Edmund Kean letter to John Lee

Manuscripts

This letter is written to John Lee at Theatre Royal, Richmond, Surrey. Kean asks "What day do I open in Cheltenham?" He also complains about money and someone he calls a "stupid son of a bitch." The letter is not dated but the letter has the posted date of 1831, August 1.

mssHM 78383

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Dittman, Bud. To "Sir."

Manuscripts

A.L.S., 1p. With an autograph note in an unidentified hand. Also: address on a separate slip of paper, formerly attached to the above.

BUK 1329

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-----. 1 letter to "My Dear Sir."

Manuscripts

Mostly personal correspondence and letters from admirers. Correspondence apparently regarding Mary Ellen Greville, Frances Maria Kelly's adopted(?) daughter. One letter from Frances Maria Kelly to Charles Kent, 1875, Sep. 28, regarding her version of the events that inspired Charles Lamb's "Barbara S---." Also Frances Maria Kelly's "Dramatic Recollections" notebook. Anne Jackson Mathews' notebook with material used in her biography of Charles Mathews.

HM 62717.

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M. Brown letter to "My Dear Sir,"

Manuscripts

This letter, written from Valparaiso, Chile is dated March 7, 1849. M. Brown wrote it on board the USS Independence to a former shipmate aboard the USS Ohio stationed in San Francisco Bay. In the letter, Brown discusses difficulties in Chile, life aboard Commodore Shubrick's vessel, naval politics and news from the rest of the fleet in the Pacific.

mssHM 81273

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Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958. "Sick for Home:" [screenplay: outline: later draft], carbon copy (MS., typewritten: 15 p.), (1938, Dec. 22)

Manuscripts

With autograph corrections; with original paper folder, dated Feb. 8, 1939. Also enclosed: typewritten, carbon copy of pages 1 & 14 only (2 p.).

ZA 468.

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Kean, Charles John, 1811?-1868 1 letter to "My dear Sir," A.L.S. (1 p.), (1851, Dec. 31)

Manuscripts

This collection primarily contains autograph letters from prominent architects, artists, authors, engravers, playwrights, and sculptors from the 19th century in England. These autograph letters appear to have been collected by Anna C. Stryke. Another portion of the correspondence contains letters from Richard Hancock, an English naturalist written to Stryke from 1924 through 1926. Items of interest include travel diaries to Hawaii, written by Stryke and her sister, Mary C. Stryke in 1935. There are also a number of drawings, sketches, and watercolors found in ephemera.

HM 80077.

Edmund Kean letter to "My Dear Sir,"

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