Autograph letters signed from Robert Barnwell Roosevelt, New York City, to Augustin Daly [manuscript], 1867-1877.

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Autograph letters signed from Robert Barnwell Roosevelt, New York City, to Augustin Daly [manuscript], 1867-1877.

Some items undated. (3) asks Daly to submit a dramatic copyright bill so that he may introduce it into Congress. (5) concerns his efforts to discover the role in which Clara Morris made her stage debut.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7012523

Folger Shakespeare Library

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Morris, Clara, 1848-1925

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Actress Clara Morris was born in Toronto and moved with her mother to Cleveland, Ohio. She became a ballet girl in the resident company of the Cleveland Academy of Music; after nine years of training with that company she played a leading lady at Wood's Theatre in Cincinnati in 1869. She made her New York debut in September in "Man and Wife," directed by Augustin Daly at his Fifth Avenue Theatre. She worked with Daly in a series of highly emotional roles over the next three years in such plays a...

Daly, Augustin, 1838-1899

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Playwright, producer; owner of Daly's Theatre in New York City. From the description of [John] Augustin Daly letter to Mr. [William A. ]Jenner [manuscript], 1892 Dec 7. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 191870954 American dramatist and theatrical manager. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to Mr. Bouton (bookseller in New York), 1882 Dec. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270526011 From the description of Autograph l...

Roosevelt, Robert Barnwell, 1829-1906

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Businessman, banker, and public official; uncle of United States President Theodore Roosevelt. From the description of Robert Barnwell Roosevelt papers, 1888-1897. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58779340 Robert Barnwell Roosevelt (1829-1906), writer, political reformer, and pioneer in conservation, was a founder of New York's Union League Club, and as attorney and influential Democratic Party member, helped to establish many social reforms and as...