John Philip Kemble's scrapbook [manuscript], ca. 1787-1840.

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John Philip Kemble's scrapbook [manuscript], ca. 1787-1840.

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Contents: 146 items including newspaper cuttings, playbills, engravings, numerous notes by Kemble taken from a wide variety of books on matters affecting his theatrical productions, 2 poems on Kemble (14 and 141), a note attributed to John Bell describing Kemble's grave in "the vale of Chamonix"(142), four letters (7, 20, 86, 104), and a printed ticket for admission to Kemble's farewell dinner on his retirement from the stage, with no guest's name added, [1817], (107). Includes an epigram "made upon the performance of Lear by...Garrick and Barry," beginning: The town has found out different ways (item 86 verso).

1 v. : ill.

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