Autograph letters signed from Richard Mansfield to various people [manuscript], 1886-1907.

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Autograph letters signed from Richard Mansfield to various people [manuscript], 1886-1907.

Correspondents: Hillary Bell, Edward A. Buck, E.A. Dithmar, Ella (Knapp) Dithmar, L.B. Glover, Caroline Harrison, Chas. L. Moore, Melville Philips, Wm. H. Rideing, [John B.] Slee, Francis Wilson, Elizabeth Winter, William Winter and others. (106) to Mrs. Winter has a copy of her reply. Most of the letters concern his work in the theater, both in America and England. Some of the letters are undated; not all of the letters are autograph.

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Buck, E. A. (Edward A.), Colonel

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Dithmar, Ella B.

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Philips, M. (Melville)

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Philadelphia journalist and novelist. From the description of Letter to Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1884 October 21. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 64590412 ...

Rideing, William H. (William Henry), 1853-1918

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Photograph taken by the journalist William H. Rideing who occasionally visited Holmes at his house in Beverly Farms. From the description of Oliver Wendell Holmes at Beverly Farms [graphic]. [ca. 1885] (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 124051582 Writer, editor of Youth's companion. From the description of Letters, 1886 October 5 and November 9. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 54994659 From the description of Letters, 1898 May 16, n.d....

Dithmar, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1854-1917

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American journalist; editor of the New York Times Saturday Review of Books, 1902-1907. From the description of Edward A. Dithmar letter to James H. Manning [manuscript], 1905 February 14.t (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 463466226 ...

Winter, Elizabeth C. (Elizabeth Campbell), 1841-1922

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Wilson, Francis, 1854-1935

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American actor. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [New York], 8 April 1891, to an unidentified recipient, 1891 Apr. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270679262 Francis Wilson was an attorney working out of his own firm in Santa Fe. From the guide to the Francis Wilson Files, 1927-1962, (School for Advanced Research) Actor, author, lecturer; first president of the Actor's Equity Association. From the description of Franc...

Harrison, Caroline Lavinia Scott, 1832-1892

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Caroline Scott Harrison was a music teacher and wife of the 23rd President, Benjamin Harrison. Fascinated by history and preservation, in 1890 she helped found the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) serving as its first President General. The centennial of President Washington’s inauguration heightened the nation’s interest in its heroic past, and in 1890 Caroline Scott Harrison lent her prestige as First Lady to the founding of the National Society of the Daug...

Bell, Hillary, 1857-1903

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Glover, Lyman B., 1846-1915

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Slee, John B., 1875-1947

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Moore, Charles Leonard, 1854-

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Winter, William, 1836-1917

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American drama critic. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Tompkinsville (Staten Island, N.Y.), 17 April 1886, to Mrs. Tracy, 1886 Apr. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270679284 Massachusetts native William Winter graduated from Harvard law school, but began his career as a journalist. He wrote for numerous journals before securing a position as drama critic at the New York Tribune. In addition to being one of the most influential critics of his day, ...

Mansfield, Richard, 1857-1907

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Richard Mansfield (1857-1907) was an actor of the late 19th century. He was born in Helgoland, Germany, into a family that excelled in the performing arts. His mother was the prima donna Hermine Rudersdorff (1822-1882), and his grandfather, the violinist Joseph Rudersdorff (1788-1866). His father, Maurice Mansfield, was a London businessman. Richard Mansfield began his stage career touring the English provinces in Gilbert and Sullivan and made his first appear...