Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne letters to Katharine Cornell and Nancy Hamilton, 1941-1980.

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Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne letters to Katharine Cornell and Nancy Hamilton, 1941-1980.

Chiefly concern social activities, friendly wishes for opening nights and special performances, and other personal events. Also include occasional remarks about particular plays, performances, and actors. There are passing references to mutual friends and acquaintances including Noel Coward, Brenda Forbes, and Cornell's husband, Guthrie McClintic.

63 items. Holographs and typescripts signed, along with two telegrams and various greeting cards.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7355566

University of Michigan

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Cornell, Katharine, 1893-1974

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Katharine Cornell was born on February 16, 1893, in Berlin, where her father, Peter Cortelyou Cornell, a distant relation of Cornell University founder Ezra Cornell, was studying medicine. Later in 1893, Peter Cornell and his wife Alice Gardner Plimpton returned to their native city, Buffalo, New York with their daughter, Katharine. Her father practiced medicine in Buffalo, for several years, but he found his time and interest increasingly taken up with the family hobby. His father, S. Douglas C...

Lunt, Alfred, 1892-1977

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Coward, Noël, 1899-1973

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Forbes, Brenda

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McClintic, Guthrie, 1893-1961

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Fontanne, Lynn

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Hamilton, Nancy, 1908-1985

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