Autograph letter signed from Richard James Lane to Sir [Charles Kean] [manuscript], 1857 October 13.

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Autograph letter signed from Richard James Lane to Sir [Charles Kean] [manuscript], 1857 October 13.

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Lane thanks Kean for inviting him and his wife to the first night of a performance [The tempest?] - "If I still wanted your version of Caliban, I was not insensible to the many results of your original ideas and your grace and grandeur."

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