Autograph letters signed from Henry Whitney Bellows, New York, to [Frances Anne] Kemble [manuscript], [1856]-1857.

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Autograph letters signed from Henry Whitney Bellows, New York, to [Frances Anne] Kemble [manuscript], [1856]-1857.

Some letters undated. He is seeking Fanny's counsel in preparing a speech on the opportunities, perils, responsibilities and faults of the acting vocation.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7109914

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....

Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney), 1814-1882

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Unitarian minister; President, United States Sanitary Commission during the Civil War. From the description of Henry W. Bellows letters, 1861-1863. (Columbia University in the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 62754818 New York City resident and Unitarian clergyman. From the description of Letter, 1844. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 31526778 Henry Whitney Bellows (1814-1882) was born in Boston and received a B.A. from Harvard Colleg...