Autograph letter signed from Clifford Richmond, Easthampton, Massachusetts, to William Winter [manuscript], 1901 May 20.

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Autograph letter signed from Clifford Richmond, Easthampton, Massachusetts, to William Winter [manuscript], 1901 May 20.

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Richmond requests the date of Winter's review of the Daly production of "All for her," a play which Richmond alleges was his mother's dramatization of A tale of two cities. On leaf 2v, Winter's draft response indicating that "All for her" was produced by Lester Wallack, not Daly, and that the play was written by Palgrave Simpson and Herman Merivale.

1 bifolium ; 22 x 14 cm.

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