Manuscripts
The collection consists of manuscript poems, documents, and correspondence by and related to English actor and author Fanny Kemble. Correspondents include: Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, Charles John Kean, John Mitchell Kemble, John Poole, Adelaide Kemble Sartoris, and Charles Mayne Young. Manuscript include:
Kemble, Frances Anne - poems:
Autumn - written after a ride by the Schuylkill (HM 45058)
"Silence - instead of thy sweet song my Bird" (HM 45059)
Lines Written by the Sea Side (HM 45060)
Morning by the Sea (HM 45060)
To Shakespeare (HM 45060)
Written at Trenton (last ten lines only, HM 45061)
Documents include:
Kemble, Frances Anne: Ticket of admission for Readings from Shakespeare for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, [1849] (HM 45062)
Correspondence (notable persons and those represented by 3 or more pieces):
Coutts, Angela Georgina (Baroness Burdett-Coutts): 3 pieces, 1858-1872, to Mary Harness; 1 piece, 1867, Mar. 26, to William Harness
Kean, Charles John: 3 pieces, 1842-1857, to William Harness
Kean, Ellen (Tree): 1 piece, 1866, June 5, to William Harness
Kean, Mary (Chambers): 1 piece, 1840, Dec. 9, to Mary Harness
Kemble, Frances Anne
6 pieces, 1858-before 1893, to [Unidentified]
1 piece, 1858, Dec. 25, to Bellows
2 pieces, 1869-1877, to Ellen M. Camac
1 piece, 1884, Mar. 3, to Frances Power Cobbe
1 piece, 1853, July 28, to Anna (Shaw) Curtis
3 pieces, 1857-1858, to George William Curtis
15 pieces, 1877-1889, to Blanche Donne
2 pieces, 1877, to Valentia Donne
2 pieces, 1858-1862, to William Bodham Donne
1 piece, 1853, Dec. 25, to Mrs. Filsbee
1 piece, 1844, Apr. 27, to James H. Hackett
5 pieces, 1841-1879, to Mary Harness
25 pieces, 1863-1892, to Polly Hogge
1 piece, 1876, June 20, to William Dean Howells
1 piece, 1865, to Miss Mitchell
1 piece, 1869, to T. B. Pugh
4 pieces, 1862, to Dora Sedgwick
1 piece, 1849, Feb. 8, to George H. Whitney
Kemble, Harry: 1 piece, 1859, Jan. 31, to Mary Harness
Kemble, John Mitchell: 1 piece, 1840, to William Harness
Poole, John: 1 piece, 1856, Apr. 18, to William Harness
Sartoris, Adelaide (Kemble): 3 pieces, 1873->1879, to Mary Harness
Sartoris, Edward John: 2 pieces, 1873->1879, to Mary Harness
Young, Charles Mayne: 1 piece, 1824, Dec. 23, to Charles Kemble
mssHM 45049-45144
