Autograph letters signed from Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart, London, to F[rances Anne] Kemble [manuscript], 1851 June-July.

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Autograph letters signed from Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart, London, to F[rances Anne] Kemble [manuscript], 1851 June-July.

Thanks Fanny for the reading she gave to benefit the Hungarian Patriots. He also comments on the British aristocracy's lack of sympathy for the plight of other people.

2 letters.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7109872

Folger Shakespeare Library

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Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893

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Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble (27 November 1809 – 15 January 1893) was a British actress from a theatre family in the early and mid-19th century. She was a well-known and popular writer and abolitionist, whose published works included plays, poetry, eleven volumes of memoirs, travel writing and works about the theatre. In 1834, Kemble married a wealthy Philadelphian, Pierce Mease Butler, grandson of U.S. Senator Pierce Butler, whom she had met on an American acting tour with her father in 1832....

Stuart, Dudley, lord, 1803-1854

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Dudley Coutts Stuart was born in London on 11 January 1803. He studied at Christ's College, Cambridge and graduated in 1823. He was elected as MP for Arundel in 1830 and again in 1831, 1833, and 1835, and was MP for Marylebone from 1847. From the 1830s, and after the visit to England by Prince Adam Czartoryski in 1831 and his accounts of Russian Tsarist oppression in Poland, Stuart became a strong advocate for Polish independence. He organised public subscriptions and annual balls to supplement ...