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Autograph Letters Signed from Sir Bernard Burke to Various Recipients
Author: Autograph Letter Signed from Bernard Burke, London, to Charles Kean
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Sardanapalus [by Byron] will indeed be an attraction ...
Autograph Letters Signed and Telegrams from Sir Henry Irving to Various Recipients
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Some items undated. Some of the letters are in the hands of Abraham Stoker and Louis Austin.
Autograph Letters Signed from Edward Pardee Burke to Isaac Hull Platt
Author: Autograph Letters Signed from John Boydell to Various People
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Recipients: Sir John W. Anderson (1), George Hollington Barker (2-3), Thomas Burke (4) and Sir William Hamilton (5). The letters discuss his prints of certain paintings, including those of scenes from Shakespeare and how instrumental he had been in establishing an English school of engraving and an English school of historical painting. (1) is endorsed: "Concerning Boydell lottery." (4) consists of the bottom fragment of Burke's letter to Boydell, with Boydell's answer. (5) is endorsed: "Account of the Pictures presented by him to the Corporation of London for their Council Chamber."
Autograph Letters Signed from George H. Clarke to Various Recipients
Author: Autograph Letters Signed from James G. Burnett to Various Recipients
Author: Autograph Letters Signed from Squire Bancroft to Various Recipients
Author: Autograph Letters Signed from Alfred Burnett to Various Recipients
Author: Leave for Awhile the Fret of Modern Life
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Recipients: [Fanny Mary] Beere, [Charles?] Critchett, [Lemuel] Clarke Davis, Edward Dowden, William Heinemann, [William Henry] O'Shea, [James Thomas?] Knowles, [Robert?] Overton, Louis N. [Parker], [Herbert] Shelton, [George Washburn?] Smalley, W.H. Tolman, William Winter and two ladies. In the letter to Dowden (4), he asks to talk over Hamlet with him before playing it for the first time; in one to [Parker] (15), he discusses a forthcoming performance of [Henry VIII], referring to Henry Irving's costume when acting the part of Wolsey. Also, printed prologue to "The Tempter" by H.A. Jones, beginning, "Leave for awhile the fret of modern life" listed in the Folger card index of first lines of poems; a statement issued by the Committee of the Shakespeare Memorial National Theatre, signed by Tree, Nov. 24, 1910, concerning the suitability of a site for the proposed theatre in Bloomsbury; an autograph signed letter sent to J.O. Westley, February 8, 1894, with Westley's notes; and two miscellaneous papers.