Manuscripts
Ellen Kean letters to Mr. Boyd and [Mr. Lovell]
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- Description
- The first letter was written to Mr. Boyd in the third person as Ellen Tree and not signed (HM 63345); the second was written to [Mr. Lovell] and signed Ellen Kean (HM 63346).
- Production date
- approximately 1838-approximately 1850.
- Call number
- mssHM 63345-63346
- Provenance
- Removed from Rare Book 287501; transferred from the Rare Books Dept., May 1981. These letters 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 material is available from the Manuscripts Dept.
