Booth-Grossman family.

Edwin Booth, the focus of this collection of family papers, was one of the most famous American actors of the 19th century.

Other family members represented in this collection are his first wife, Mary Devlin Booth, their daughter and his biographer, Edwina Booth Grossman and her husband, Ignatius R. Grossman. There is only a small amount of material on Booth's father, the actor Junius Brutus Booth Sr. and his acting brothers, Junius Brutus Booth, Jr. and John Wilkes Booth, most famous as the man who assassinated President Lincoln.

From the description of Booth-Grossman family papers, 1840-1953. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122615300