Autograph letter signed from Chandos Leigh to Edmund Kean [manuscript], 1814 February 28.

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Autograph letter signed from Chandos Leigh to Edmund Kean [manuscript], 1814 February 28.

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Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833

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Edmund Kean (1787-1833) was an English actor. From the guide to the Edmund Kean Collection, 1814-1933, (Princeton University. Library. Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections) Edmund Kean (1787-1833) was an English actor associated with the Drury Lane Theatre. An affair with Charlotte Cox, the wife of prominent alderman Robert Cox, led to an adultery trial against Kean in 1825 and his subsequent travel outside of England. Kean returned to the English stage in 1827 and re...

Leigh, Chandos, 1791-1850

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Chandos Leigh, first Baron Leigh, English poet and literary patron. From the description of Chandos Leigh manuscript material : 4 items, 1824-1835 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 708384092 Chandos Leigh (1791-1850) was educated at Harrow School, where he met Lord Byron, and Christ Church, Oxford, following which he made the grand tour with Philip Shuttleworth. A distant cousin of Jane Austen's, and a generous literary patron to Leigh Hunt and others, Leigh pri...