Autograph letters signed from Fanny Kemble, United States, England and Switzerland, to Harriet St. Leger [manuscript], [1856?-1868?].
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Autograph letters signed from Fanny Kemble, United States, England and Switzerland, to Harriet St. Leger [manuscript], [1856?-1868?].
Description
56 items.
Associated name
Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893, correspondent.
Butler, Alice Dudley, 1874-1965, former owner.
Lloyd, Mary Charlotte, 1819-1896, addressee.
St. Leger, Harriet Frances, approximately 1797-1878, addressee.
Wister, Fanny Kemble, former owner.
Butler, Alice Dudley, 1874-1965, former owner.
Lloyd, Mary Charlotte, 1819-1896, addressee.
St. Leger, Harriet Frances, approximately 1797-1878, addressee.
Wister, Fanny Kemble, former owner.
Scope and content
She discusses her public readings, the books she is reading, the Civil War in the United States and its aftermath in addition to referring to her family and many friends, among them Fanny Cobbe, Arthur Malkin, Henry Gréville, Frederic Leighton, and Lady Ellesmere [i.e. Egerton] (32, 44, 47). She writes of [F.D.] Maurice (7), Charles Fechter, to whom she sent her old theatre ornaments (8), Georg Gervinus and his commentary on Shakespeare (18, 35), Jenny Lind (26), and the general election of 1865 (37-38). Also, one autographed letter incomplete to Mary [Lloyd], July 23 [1885?] (54); extracts from [George Combe's?] journal written while in the United States, 1839 (55); and a postcard bearing the name and address of Lady Butler, Fanny Kemble's granddaughter, who once owned this collection (56).
Note
Many letters are incomplete.
Source of acquisition
Gift of Mrs. Walter Stokes (i.e. Fanny Wister)
Place of creation/publication
United States.
England.
Switzerland.
England.
Switzerland.
Item Details
Call number
Y.c.1463 (1-56)
Folger accession
MS Add 872