Autograph letters signed from John W. Cooper to various recipients [manuscript], ca. 1820-1859.

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Autograph letters signed from John W. Cooper to various recipients [manuscript], ca. 1820-1859.

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Recipients: Thomas Francis Dillon Croker, [Lord Richard W.P. Curzon-Howe], Charles J. Kean, W.C. Macready, J.P. Kemble and another. The letters to Macready concern his career at Drury Lane theatre. (16b), a draft letter to unidentified recipient, ca. 1820, states the terms upon which he would be happy to become a member of the Dublin Theatre. Some letters unsigned. Some letters undated.

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Cooper, John, 1793-1870

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