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Scharf, George, 1820-1895. Letter: 1872 Aug. 29, National Portrait Gallery, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, [London] W., to David Laing / George Scharf.

Title: Letter: 1872 Aug. 29, National Portrait Gallery, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, [London] W., to David Laing / George Scharf. 1872.

Query concerning an engraving of J. Graham's portrait of Sir Walter Scott.

ArchivalResource: [1]p.

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Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874. Correspondence, 1829-1874

Title: Charles Sumner correspondence, 1829-1874

Letters to Charles Sumner, lawyer, Republican senator from Massachusetts, and anti-slavery campaigner; with a smaller number of letters from Sumner to others.

ArchivalResource: 33 cartons (43.1 linear ft.)

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Scharf, George, 1820-1895. Letter: 1875 Dec. 15, National Portrait Gallery, Exhibition road, South Kensington, W., / George Scharf.

Title: Letter: 1875 Dec. 15, National Portrait Gallery, Exhibition road, South Kensington, W., / George Scharf. 1875.

Concerns Laing's edition of Wilkie and Geddes etchings. Invites Laing to dine when next in london.

ArchivalResource: [3]p.

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Scharf, George, 1820-1895. Letter: 1871 June 3, National Portrait Gallery, Exhibition Road, South Kensington. W., to David Laing / George Scharf.

Title: Letter: 1871 June 3, National Portrait Gallery, Exhibition Road, South Kensington. W., to David Laing / George Scharf. 1871.

Concerns a proclamation held by Scott in Allan's portrait.

ArchivalResource: [3]p.

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Scharf, George, 1820-1895. Letter: 1869 Nov. 23, National Portrait Gallery, 29, Great George Street, Westminster, S.W., to David Laing / G. Scharf.

Title: Letter: 1869 Nov. 23, National Portrait Gallery, 29, Great George Street, Westminster, S.W., to David Laing / G. Scharf. 1869.

Concerns the Hilliard Manuscript, the new post of Librarian, and the previous encumbent, Woodward, at Windsor.

ArchivalResource: [4] p.

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Scharf, George, 1820-1895. Letter: 1858 Feb. 6, 29 Great George St. Westminster, to David Laing / George Scharf.

Title: Letter: 1858 Feb. 6, 29 Great George St. Westminster, to David Laing / George Scharf. 1858.

Requests Laing's catalogue on Trinity College Altarpiece recently transferred from Hampton Court.

ArchivalResource: [2] p.

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Macready, William Charles, 1793-1873,. Autograph letter signed from William Charles Macready, Cheltenham, to George Scharf [manuscript], 1867 January 29.

Title: Autograph letter signed from William Charles Macready, Cheltenham, to George Scharf [manuscript], 1867 January 29.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Scharf, George, Sir, 1820-1895. The brilliant, but irregular career of Edmund Kean [manuscript], 1845.

Title: The brilliant, but irregular career of Edmund Kean [manuscript], 1845.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Lady Anne Blunt manuscript material : 2 items, 1864?

Title: Lady Anne Blunt manuscript material : 2 items 1864?

Anne Isabella Noel Blunt [née King], suo jure Baroness Wentworth, traveller and breeder of Arab horses. She was the only daughter of of William King, first earl of Lovelace, and his wife, Ada King, the only child of the poet Lord Byron and his wife, Anne Isabella Milbanke. To George Scharf, artist and gallery director : 2 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Monday" 11 Apr [1864?] : (B'ANA 0603) : from 11 St. George's Terrace : begins, "Mrs. Burton is staying here and wishes to see the National Portrait Gallery as much as I do." -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Wednesday" 13 Apr [1864?] : (B'ANA 0604) : from 11 St. George's Terrace : begins, "We were very sorry not to see you yesterday morning at the Gallery ...".

ArchivalResource: 2 items

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Scharf, George, Sir, 1820-1895,. Autograph letter signed from Sir George Scharf, Torrington Square, London, to Mrs. Kean [manuscript], 1856 April 4.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Sir George Scharf, Torrington Square, London, to Mrs. Kean [manuscript], 1856 April 4.

Concerning designs and costumes for [Charles] Kean's production of Winter's tale at the Princess Theatre.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Lovelace, Ralph Milbanke, Earl of, 1839-1906. Ralph Milbanke, Earl of Lovelace manuscript material : 3 items, 1854-1886

Title: Ralph Milbanke, Earl of Lovelace manuscript material : 3 items, 1854-1886

· Autograph marriage certificate, signed "Wentworth" : 30 Dec 1880 : (B'ANA 0657) : printed document (printed and sold by Thomas Scott, 1, Warwick Court, Holborn) filled out in ink; certifying his marriage to Mary Caroline Stuart Wortley, performed by Stephen W. Lawley at the Parish Church in the Parish of St. Anne, Westminster, Middlesex. With a list of those present (including Jane C. Lovelace; [Lord] Wharncliffe; George Hamilton; L[ionel] King Noel; W. H. Pollen; Robert Browning; Edward J. Poynter; J[ohn] H[ungerford] Pollen; A. J. Ross, D.D.; Archibald Stuart Wortley); and the signature the parish rector, Nugent Wade. Confer Pforz MS (MISC 0772), a Robert Browning letter, for a reference to the wedding. · To Frederick Locker-Lampson, poet : 1 autograph letter signed "Wentworth" : 11 Nov 1886 : (B'ANA 0492) : from Wentworth House, Swan Walk, Chelsea, S.W. (printed stationery) : laid into Pforzhimer copy 2 of Lady Byron's Remarks Occasioned by Mr. Moore's Notices of Lord Byron's Life; presenting the pamphlet to Lampson, explaining that "by some accident" it had never been sent to the Duchess of Northumberland as intended. · To George Scharf, artist and gallery director : 1 autograph letter signed "Ralph G. N. King" : 26 Jun [1854] : from 40 Montague Square : begins, "Grandmamma desired me to tell you that she is extremely obliged to you for your letter. As you were so kind as to give the choice of the time for my lessons, perhaps you would give them on Tuesday and Thursday at ¹/₂ past 10 O'clock."

ArchivalResource: 3 items

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Scharf, George, Sir, 1820-1895. Correspondence, 1849-1894.

Title: Correspondence, 1849-1894.

The collection comprises seven letters. Scharf informs a printer that he is sending several blocks and "a batch of Kugler illustrations" (1849 May 25). He asks Chambers Hall to support his election to membership in the Athenaeum Club (1854 Jan. 30). Explains to J.Y. Ackerman, the secretary to the Society of Antiquaries, that recurring inflammation of his eyes prevented him from completing the plates for the Archaeologia, as well as other commissions from "the most eminent publishers" (1856 Nov. 19; on "Exhibition of Art Treasures of the United Kingdom" letterhead). Explains to Jas Crowdy the procedures for having his picture by Francis Cotes authenticated (1881 Jan. 6). Describes to John Murray his research for the edition of Thomas Gray's poems which includes the print of Gray's portrait made after the original painting in Murray's possession. He is sending the book (1894 May 21). Sends Murray the copy of a letter from Colliss of Strood who, reading the discussion about Gray's portrait in Athenaeum issues, has remembered his own edition of the poems, which has a different title page with Gray's portrait, and copied it in his letter (1894 July 31). This letter is also included in the collection (1894 June 20).

ArchivalResource: 7 items (17 p.)

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Scharf, George, Sir, 1820-1895,. Autograph letter signed from George Scharf, London, to Charles Kean [manuscript], 1856?

Title: Autograph letter signed from George Scharf, London, to Charles Kean [manuscript], 1856?

Scharf indicates that Kean's "mention of Autolycus and the purse business reminds [him] of the thievish god Mercury!" On leaf 2, a drawing with the caption "Hermes Autolycus in the paenula & petasus with purse." Address on item: 1 T.S. (presumably Torrington Square). Also, a leaf labeled "Records of Norfolk" with drawings of a lion and mulberries.

ArchivalResource: 3 leaves : ill. ; 18 x 12 cm.

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Lloyd, William Watkiss, 1813-1893,. Autograph letter signed from W. Watkiss Lloyd, London, to G. Scharf, Esq. [manuscript], 1847 October 30.

Title: Autograph letter signed from W. Watkiss Lloyd, London, to G. Scharf, Esq. [manuscript], 1847 October 30.

Recipient is possibly George Scharf. Discusses Classical antiquities. Address on letter: 77 Snow Hill.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves ; 18 x 12 cm.

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Hesketh, Robert, architect. Robert Hesketh travel diary, 1839 October 22-1840 February 19.

Title: Robert Hesketh travel diary, 1839 October 22-1840 February 19.

Autograph diary, in pen and brown ink, kept by English architect Robert Hesketh on a journey from London to Smyrna, through France and Italy, in 1839 and 1840. Hesketh travelled with George Scharf and Sir Charles Fellows in support of Fellows's archaeological endeavors in western Turkey. The present journal ends on 19 Feb. 1840, shortly after the party's arrival in Smyrna, and just as the more serious archaeological activity was to begin. The text of Hesketh's diary is mostly concerned with the architecture, art, and antiquities of the places visited. There is very little mention of any of his travelling companions and sparse mention of social activity. While the diary makes frequent note of Hesketh's sketching, the volume contains no illustrations, aside from several small plans. Laid in is a single letter, dated 22 June 1891, from Edwin Rushfield (or Rushfeld) to "My dear Mr Hesketh" (presumably Robert Lempriere Hesketh), in which Rushfield returns "with many thanks your father's beautiful sketch books & his diary". Hesketh leaves London on 22 Oct. 1839 and spends the rest of the month in France, mostly in Paris, whose notable works of art and architecture he does not like. Paintings at the Louvre "contain some excellent ones by foreign masters but are mixed up with terrible rubbish of the French School". Notre Dame is "of very inferior detail ... bad in all points having neither grandeur nor beauty". He visits the Théâtre de l'Opéra Comique to see La Reine d'un jour, and mentions brief meetings with architects Henri Labrouste and Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. On the way from Paris to Florence, Hesketh continues a commentary on the sights. He appreciates alpine scenery, notes the construction of several suspension bridges in Switzerland, gives a lukewarm review of the wine at Asti ("like bad Port & water, but is the best I have met with yet"), and criticizes the narrow streets and bad churches of Genoa. The party takes advantage of pleasant weather and walks most of the way from Genoa to La Spezia, in three days. On 16 Nov. 1839, he visits marble quarries and several sculptors' studios at Carrara. After a quick stop in Pisa, Hesketh spends the next 10 days at Florence, where he admires the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore and Giotto's Campanile, the Uffizi Gallery, the Palazzo Pitti, and the Boboli Gardens. At Florence, Hesketh and his party meet the poet and philanthropist John Kenyon and the actor Charles Kemble. After touring the vicinity of Florence, including Volterra, the travelers continue to Rome, where they will remain through January. Here, Hesketh attends vespers at St. Peter's, visits the Vatican galleries, and attends a soirée at Torlonia's. He does much sketching as well, and records a chronological account of his sketching activity on the first two pages of the diary. In January, he visits nearby towns, including Tivoli and Albano. There are several large chronological gaps in the diary while Hesketh is in Rome. After the last of these gaps, on 15 Feb. 1840, Hesketh arrives in Smyrna, where he provides a detailed description of the city, including its architecture, bazaars, and people. On 18 Feb. 1840, he is invited into a mosque at Smyrna, and accompanies his description of it with a small plan of the layout. At this point, the diary abruptly ends, though Hesketh's travels with Fellows and Scharf would continue until July.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ([64] p., with blanks) ; 22 cm.

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Scharf, George, Sir, 1820-1895. Autograph letters signed (7) : London, to Mrs. Hardwick, 1886 Jan. 1-1894 Jan. 6.

Title: Autograph letters signed (7) : London, to Mrs. Hardwick, 1886 Jan. 1-1894 Jan. 6.

ArchivalResource: 7 items (18 p.) ; (12mo)

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Ingleby, C. M. (Clement Mansfield), 1823-1886,. Autograph letters to Clement Mansfield Ingleby signed from various correspondents [manuscript], 1859-1884.

Title: Autograph letters to Clement Mansfield Ingleby signed from various correspondents [manuscript], 1859-1884.

Volume 7 of a 7-volume set of bound letters addressed to C.M. Ingleby. Correspondents in this volume: A.E. Brae, J.J. Sylvester, Arthur Drake Coleridge, W.L. Sargant, H.R. Luard, F.G. Fleay, C.J. Monro, W.J. Rolfe, P.A. Daniel, W.D. Selby, N.E.S.A. Hamilton, John S. Stuart-Glennie, Hugh Carleton, J.H. Stirling, Samuel Brandram, W. Aldis Wright, Sebastian Evans, W.W. Skeat, A. Erlebach, Mrs. Henry Pott, George Salmon, George Scharf, Frederic Harrison, R.G. Latham, George F. Warner, J.H. Shorthouse, R.G. White, J. Dykes Campbell, Karl Elze, H.B. Wheatley, Charles Mackay, George Gore.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 20 x 15 cm.

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Blunt, Anne, Lady, 1837-1917. Lady Anne Blunt manuscript material : 2 items, [1864?]

Title: Lady Anne Blunt manuscript material : 2 items, [1864?]

To George Scharf, artist and gallery director : 2 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Monday" 11 Apr [1864?] : (B'ANA 0603) : from 11 St. George's Terrace : begins, "Mrs. Burton is staying here and wishes to see the National Portrait Gallery as much as I do." -- 1 autograph letter signed : "Wednesday" 13 Apr [1864?] : (B'ANA 0604) : from 11 St. George's Terrace : begins, "We were very sorry not to see you yesterday morning at the Gallery ..."

ArchivalResource: 2 items

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Kean, Charles John, 1811?-1868,. Autograph letter signed to Charles Kean from various correspondents [manuscript], 1856-1858.

Title: Autograph letter signed to Charles Kean from various correspondents [manuscript], 1856-1858.

Correspondents: George Scharf (1-4) and William Bodham Donne (5). (1-2) largely deal with The winter's tale, with passing references to Hamlet and Merchant of Venice as well. (4), a fragment of a letter, concerns costumes for Iris, Ceres and Juno in The tempest and is illustrated with simple sketches of Juno on leaf 1v. Also mentions John Mitchell Kemble's death. (5) includes Donne's impressions of Kean's King Lear. Letters from Scharf written from 1 Torrington Square, National Portrait Gallery and the offices of the Exhibition of Art Treasures of the United Kingdom, Manchester; letter from Donne written from 9, the Grove, Blackheath. Some letters undated.

ArchivalResource: 5 items : ill. ; 18 x 12 cm to 20 x 13 cm.

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Greg, Robert Philips, 1826-1906. Robert P. Greg collection of letters and other papers removed from J. Hain Friswell's Life portraits of William Shakespeare [manuscript], 1883-1901.

Title: Robert P. Greg collection of letters and other papers removed from J. Hain Friswell's Life portraits of William Shakespeare [manuscript], 1883-1901.

Letters (1-33), research notes (34), and clippings (35-41), chiefly concerning Shakespeare portraiture, especially the Darmstadt death mask, the Davenant bust, and the Droeshout and Jansen portraits. Also, photographs and other reproductions of some images of Shakespeare (bust in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, the Droeshout print and the (supposed) original painting from which it was made, etc.) and a portrait of Ben Jonson (42-48). Correspondents include antiquarians and members of the Garrick Club: Frederick Hawley (1-3), William Salt Brassington (4-13), Harold Baker (14-17), Dr. E. Becker (18-19), W.H. Gregg (20-21), Edward A. Bond (on embossed paper of the British Museum) (22), Brierly (23), John Evans (24), Chas. J. Fitch, secretary of the Garrick club (25), Sarah Flower (26), J.O. Halliwell-Phillipps (27), Sidney Lee (28), Richard Owen (29), George Scharf (30), [Hugh Stewart Spince?] (31), R. Walters, secretary for the Garrick Club (32), and an unidentified correspondent (on card of 27, Trebovir Road, S.W.) (33). The letters from W.H. Gregg concern genealogy of the Greg and Gregg families.

ArchivalResource: 49 items.

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Scharf, George, 1820-1895. Letter: 1863 Sept. 2, Chevening, Sevenoaks, to David Laing / G. Scharf.

Title: Letter: 1863 Sept. 2, Chevening, Sevenoaks, to David Laing / G. Scharf. 1863.

Queries concerning obtaining a portrait of Walter Scott .

ArchivalResource: [2]p.

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Scharf, George, 1820-1895. Letter: 1860 July 11, National Portrait Gallery, Westminster, to David Laing / George Scharf.

Title: Letter: 1860 July 11, National Portrait Gallery, Westminster, to David Laing / George Scharf. 1860.

Concerns Laing's plans to present a portrait of Cecil Earl of Salisbury to the National Portrait Gallery in London.

ArchivalResource: [2]p.

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Scharf, George, Sir, 1820-1895. George Scharf letter, 1878 July 6.

Title: George Scharf letter, 1878 July 6.

Letter from Sir George Scharf to E.P. Shirley concerning proofs of his publication A descriptive and historical catalogue of the collection of pictures at Knowsley Hall, London. Scharf apologizes for the rough condition of the proofs he is sending, explaining that the Duke of Bedford's refusal to give him a copy of his description of his pictures in Eaton Square accounts for their somewhat disorganized state. A photocopy of the title page of Scharf's 1875 edition of A descriptive and historical catalogue of the collection of pictures at Knowsley Hall accompanies the letter.

ArchivalResource: 1 letter.1 title page.

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Scharf, George, 1820-1895. Letter: 1872 Sept. 26, National Portrait Gallery, Exhibition road, South Kensington. W., to David Laing / G. Scharf.

Title: Letter: 1872 Sept. 26, National Portrait Gallery, Exhibition road, South Kensington. W., to David Laing / G. Scharf. 1872.

Query concerning an engraving by J. Graham of Walter Scott.

ArchivalResource: [2]p.

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Scharf, George, Sir, 1820-1895,. Autograph letter signed from George Scharf, National Portrait Gallery, to Charles Kean [manuscript], 1859 March 30.

Title: Autograph letter signed from George Scharf, National Portrait Gallery, to Charles Kean [manuscript], 1859 March 30.

Praises Kean's Henry V.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves ; 19 x 12 cm.

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Christian, Frances Anne, 1790 or 1-1874,. Autograph letter signed from Frances Anne Christian, Leicester, to George Scharf [manuscript], 1860 January.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Frances Anne Christian, Leicester, to George Scharf [manuscript], 1860 January.

Mrs. Christian solicits Scharf's vote at the approaching election to the Royal Dramatic College.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves ; 18 x 12 cm.

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Martin, Theodore, Sir, 1816-1909. Letter, 1881 Oct. 25, Onslow Square, to [Sir George] Scharf.

Title: Letter, 1881 Oct. 25, Onslow Square, to [Sir George] Scharf.

Letter from Sir Theodore Martin, the author and translator, to Sir George Scharf, director of the National Portrait Gallery regarding Martin's purchase of Archibald Skirving's crayon portrait of Robert Burns.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; 18 cm.

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Scharf, George, Sir, 1820-1895,. Autograph letter signed from George Scharf, London, to Charles Kean [manuscript], 1856 August 16.

Title: Autograph letter signed from George Scharf, London, to Charles Kean [manuscript], 1856 August 16.

Scharf sends a note from Charles Newton about painting oriental and tropical scenery (no longer present). Also refers to "the wine mixing and the Pyrrhic," probably a reference to Kean's 1856 production of The winter's tale which features in Pyrrhic dance in Act I, scene 2. Address on item: 1 Torrington Square.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves ; 19 x 12 cm.

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Scharf, George, 1820-1895. Letter: 1869 Dec. 14, National Portrait Gallery, 29, Great George Street, Westminster, S.W., to David Laing / G. Scharf.

Title: Letter: 1869 Dec. 14, National Portrait Gallery, 29, Great George Street, Westminster, S.W., to David Laing / G. Scharf. 1869.

Concerns the Hilliard Manuscript, and the successor to Woodward, Librarian at Windsor.

ArchivalResource: [3] p.

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Scharf, George, 1820-1895. Letter: 1871 May 29, National Portrait Gallery, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, W., [London] to David Laing / George Scharf.

Title: Letter: 1871 May 29, National Portrait Gallery, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, W., [London] to David Laing / George Scharf. 1871.

Concerns Sir William Allan's portrait of Scott and plans to establish samples of handwriting of those portrayed at the National Portrait Gallery.

ArchivalResource: [4]p.

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Ralph Milbanke, Earl of Lovelace manuscript material : 3 items, 1854-1886

Title: Ralph Milbanke, Earl of Lovelace manuscript material : 3 items 1854-1886

Autograph marriage certificate, signed "Wentworth" : 30 Dec 1880 : (B'ANA 0657) : printed document (printed and sold by Thomas Scott, 1, Warwick Court, Holborn) filled out in ink; certifying his marriage to Mary Caroline Stuart Wortley, performed by Stephen W. Lawley at the Parish Church in the Parish of St. Anne, Westminster, Middlesex. With a list of those present (including Jane C. Lovelace; [Lord] Wharncliffe; George Hamilton; L[ionel] King Noel; W. H. Pollen; Robert Browning; Edward J. Poynter; J[ohn] H[ungerford] Pollen; A. J. Ross, D.D.; Archibald Stuart Wortley); and the signature the parish rector, Nugent Wade. Confer Pforz MS (MISC 0772), a Robert Browning letter, for a reference to the wedding.

ArchivalResource: 3 items

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Kean, Charles John, 1811?-1868,. Autograph letters signed from Charles John Kean, London, to Sir George Scharf [manuscript], 1856-1859.

Title: Autograph letters signed from Charles John Kean, London, to Sir George Scharf [manuscript], 1856-1859.

(1) Mentions plans to meet with Scharf. Dated 8 April 1859 and addressed from 7 Upper Hyde Park St; (2) Asks Scharf to bear in mind the Court of Polixenes, which he wishes received in all its beauty, and discusses its set design. Dated Thursday; (3) Discusses preparing for his annual Shakespearian play and requests Scharf's assistance and dated Tuesday.

ArchivalResource: 3 items ; 19 x 12 cm.

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