Adelaide Phillipps letters ca. 1860-1881

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Adelaide Phillipps letters ca. 1860-1881

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/2406

Adelaide Phillipps (1833-1882) was an English-born opera singer who sang contralto roles in the U.S. and Europe. Collection consists of letters, mainly to Mrs. Gordon Lester Ford, dealing chiefly with Phillipps's career and travels.

.08 linear foot (1 folder)

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6312545

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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Ford, Emily Ellsworth Fowler, 1826-1893

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Emily Ellsworth (Fowler) Ford (1826-1893), a granddaughter of Noah Webster (1748-1843) the lexicographer, and daughter of William Chauncey Fowler (1793-1881) a professor of rhetoric and oratory and English literature at Amherst College (1838-1843), grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts and moved to Brooklyn, New York in late 1853 upon her marriage to Gordon Lester Ford (1823-1891), a businessman and lawyer. Ford came from a prominent family, well-connected within both social and literary ...

Phillipps, Adelaide, 1833-1882

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Adelaide Phillipps (26 October 1833 – 3 October 1882) was an Anglo-American opera singer and actress who became one of America’s most admired contraltos of the Victorian era. She was born as Adelaide Maria Marianne Phillipps in St Paul's in Bristol in England, the second of six children and the only daughter of Alfred Phillipps (c1806–1867), a chemist and druggist, and Mary née Rees (c1811–1854), who with her sister was a dancing and calisthenics teacher in Bristol. Adelaide Phillipps was bap...