Autograph note by Mr. Sargent responding to Charles Lamb Kenney's Poets and profits [manuscript], ca. 1875.

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Autograph note by Mr. Sargent responding to Charles Lamb Kenney's Poets and profits [manuscript], ca. 1875.

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Note concerns a "curious item" in Charles Lamb Kenney's Poets and profits that indicates that the engagement of Dion Boucicault surpassed in attraction any since Edmund Kean; Boucicault had been paid over £9800 or about $56,000 for his share of severty nightly receipts. On verso, a note signed "A.W." identifies the writer as a Mr. Sargent, who had requested that the note be published. Also, a much later note in the hand of William Winter indicates that the Boucicault production in question was The Shaughraun.

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