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North family. North family collection of letters and papers relating to Tate Wilkinson, Mrs. Siddons, and the North family of York [manuscript], 1732-1955.

Title: North family collection of letters and papers relating to Tate Wilkinson, Mrs. Siddons, and the North family of York [manuscript], 1732-1955.

Contents include: 1) Letters to Tate Wilkinson of the Theatre Royal, York, from Anna Maria Hull, Agnes Maria Bennett, William Thomas Lewis, Edward Barlow and John Collins, 1796-1801, and 2 invitation cards to ladies of the Siddons and Wilkinson families from the Countess St. Antonio and Mrs. Horace Twiss, (1-10). The 3 letters from W.T. Lewis and Edward Barlow to Tate Wilkinson, [April?]-Dec. 1800 (3-5), refer to the complaint of certain actors against the manager of Covent Garden, Thomas Harris. 2) Letters to the North family of York from Mrs. Mary Siddons, H.G.I. Siddons (great-grandson of Sarah Siddons) and Sydney C. Carter, ca. 1870-1955, (11-21). 3) 2 scrapbooks of Jane and Anne Wilkinson (Tate Wilkinson's granddaughters), 1821-1842, (22-23). 4) 2 theatrical scrapbooks of the Wilkinson family, ca. 1765-ca. 1845, including a facsimile of a letter from Barton Booth, Nov. 5, 1732, the autograph of George Cruikshank, a poem by R.B.B. Sheridan, and a song sung by Miss Wilkinson in 1827, (24-25). 5) 2 notebooks with details of the Siddons, Kemble and Wilkinson families by Miss M[ary] North, ca. 1920, (26-27). 6) 1 daguerreotype and 3 silhouettes of the Wilkinson family, 2 photographs of Mrs. Scott-Siddons and 2 of Mrs. Mary Siddons, (28-36). Poems, quotations, playbills and many engravings fill the scrapbooks.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (36 items) : ill.

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