Letter from Beatrice Stella Campbell to actress Katharine Cornell, New York. [ca. December 1934-February 1935] [manuscript].
1934
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Letter from Beatrice Stella Campbell to actress Katharine Cornell, New York. [ca. December 1934-February 1935] [manuscript].
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New York, ca. December 1934-February 1935]
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1 item ; 26.5 x 20 cm
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Dealer's description: ". Beatrice Stella [Mrs. Patrick] Campbell, who played Juliet, Ophelia, and Lady Macbeth to Johnston Forbes Robertson's Romeo, Hamlet, and Macbeth. To the actress Katharine Cornell. No date [c. December 1934-February 1935, when Cornell was playing Juliet on Broadway with Basil Rathbone as Romeo and Orson Welles as Tybalt and Mrs. Campbell was in Hollywood] "With my dearest and grateful love, I enclose you a check for $500.00 promised to you this month in repayment for your dearness in helping me through my smuggling and other difficulties. You will never know the load you took off my mind or the extent of my gratitude! How I wish I could see you in Juliet and how I wish you could see my 'rushes.' I look like a sulky sorrowful negress, but the Producer thinks I look beautiful, and do does Norma Shearer . . ." Typed with handwritten annotations. Dimensions ten and three quarters by seven and three quarters inches."
Dealer's description: ". Beatrice Stella [Mrs. Patrick] Campbell, who played Juliet, Ophelia, and Lady Macbeth to Johnston Forbes Robertson's Romeo, Hamlet, and Macbeth. To the actress Katharine Cornell. No date [c. December 1934-February 1935, when Cornell was playing Juliet on Broadway with Basil Rathbone as Romeo and Orson Welles as Tybalt and Mrs. Campbell was in Hollywood] "With my dearest and grateful love, I enclose you a check for $500.00 promised to you this month in repayment for your dearness in helping me through my smuggling and other difficulties. You will never know the load you took off my mind or the extent of my gratitude! How I wish I could see you in Juliet and how I wish you could see my 'rushes.' I look like a sulky sorrowful negress, but the Producer thinks I look beautiful, and do does Norma Shearer . . ." Typed with handwritten annotations. Dimensions ten and three quarters by seven and three quarters inches."
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Letters (correspondence)
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United States -- New York (State) -- New York.
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FAST ACC 271293 (flat)