Autograph letters signed from Fanny Kemble, United States, England and Switzerland, to Harriet St. Leger [manuscript], [1856?-1868?].

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Autograph letters signed from Fanny Kemble, United States, England and Switzerland, to Harriet St. Leger [manuscript], [1856?-1868?].

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She discusses her public readings, the books she is reading, the Civil War in the United States and its aftermath in addition to referring to her family and many friends, among them Fanny Cobbe, Arthur Malkin, Henry Gréville, Frederic Leighton, and Lady Ellesmere [i.e. Egerton] (32, 44, 47). She writes of [F.D.] Maurice (7), Charles Fechter, to whom she sent her old theatre ornaments (8), Georg Gervinus and his commentary on Shakespeare (18, 35), Jenny Lind (26), and the general election of 1865 (37-38). Also, one autographed letter incomplete to Mary [Lloyd], July 23 [1885?]; extracts from [George Combe's?] journal written while in the United States, 1839; and a postcard bearing the name and address of Lady Butler, Fanny Kemble's granddaughter, who once owned this collection.

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