Papers of Sarah Siddons [manuscript], 1778-1832.

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Papers of Sarah Siddons [manuscript], 1778-1832.

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Contents: a poem in her hand, supposedly to P. Galindo; an agreement with Thos. Harris of Covent Garden theatre for the 1809-10 season, signed by both; an announcement of "Mrs. Siddons' Readings from Shakespeare and Milton," Oxford, March 1814; 3 tickets to her performances, one for June 29, 1812, her farewell address written by H. Twiss. Also, clippings, ca. 1832, from the Observer concerning Mrs. Siddons and her family, including some corrections of the Life of Mrs. Siddons by Thos. Campbell; a prologue, July 1784, to James Thomson's Tancred and Sigismunda with reference to Mrs. Siddons; addresses spoken by her on benefit nights in 1795 and 1797, the latter at Drury Lane with a note to J. Larpent from R. Wroughton; a prologue in her hand, given at Bath, May, 1778; "Siddonian Scribbling No. 1" by Thos. Amyot; and notes by J.P. Collier about her with reference to James Boaden's Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons.

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Twiss, Horace, 1787?-1849

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Collier, John Payne, 1789-1883

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Harris, Thomas, -1820

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Galindo, P.

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