KEMBLE
(Frances Anne, Mrs Pierce Butler, 1809-1893, Shakespearean Actress)
Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent,
thanking him for the “notice of my friend Mrs Edward Rouilly & of the kind note enclosed with it. She was a charming and amiable woman & it was impossible to be even slightly acquainted with her without feeling that the genuine & graceful... of her manner sprang from a root of very real goodness. Her husband was... an intimate friend of my brother’s & from a very early period of my life I have known Mr & Mrs Rouilly well... for a number of years of my residence in America - your name... appeals also to friendly associations of mine with Mr & Mrs Robert McIntosh - with both of whom I was for many years very intimate. I am glad that you found anything in my book to assume or interest you...”, 4 sides 8vo., Queen Anne’s Mansions, Westminster, Friday 9th, no date
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0
Stock No:
43251
£125
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KEMBLE
(Charles, 1775-1854, Actor)
Autograph Letter Signed to “Madam”
saying that “at present, I do not know what situations will be open to youthful aspirants - at the conclusion of the season, I may be wiser and if your pupil can be employed it will give much pleasure to...”, 1 side 8vo. T.R.C Garden - Covent Garden, 14th May
marks from former mounting on the edges not affecting the text
Item Date:
1831
Stock No:
43249
£75
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KEMBLE
(Charles, 1775-1854, Actor)
Signature from end of Autograph Letter Signed
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Stock No:
9669
£20
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KEMBLE
(Frances Anne, Mrs Pierce Butler, 1809-1893, Shakespearean Actress as ‘Fanny Kemble’)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Mitchell
thanking her effusively for an invitation to visit “I shall hope to be able to do so about the third week in August when I expect to leave... for the Lower country - and while showing my little Yankee girl all the interesting places of that region loved of poets, it will be a very great pleasure to me to show her the pretty place where I have spent so many pleasant hours where your kind and obliging offer of hospitality makes me feel sure of the same friendly welcome that I have hitherto always found there. Dear Mrs Mitchell I will write to you... from Ambleside... when we are likely to come to Scotland... it will be a great pleasure to me to become better acquainted with the dear daughter of my dear friend Jane...”, 4 sides 8vo., 5 Wilton Place, Sunday 26th no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
43766
£100
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KEMBLE
(Frances Anne, Mrs Pierce Butler, 1809-1893, Shakespearean Actress)
Autograph Letter Signed to Miss Walker
saying that she has had a “sort of gouty turning in my conscience ever since I gave the lines I gave you - to Beauty for his Temple Bar. I feel as if I ought to have asked your permission before publishing them for I wrote them for you & not for the Public - your kind acquiescence in what I have done rather increases my remorse - you are very good to have written to me so kindly about it. I hope I may have the pleasure of seeing you...”, 3 sides sm. 8vo., 26 Hereford Square, “Tuesday 18th” no date
Item Date:
1880
Stock No:
39422
£125
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