Autograph letter signed from Emma Hamilton Smith, Plymouth, to Charles John Kean [manuscript], 1855 June 17.

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Autograph letter signed from Emma Hamilton Smith, Plymouth, to Charles John Kean [manuscript], 1855 June 17.

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Letter concerns Kean's proposed production of The winter's tale; the writer's father, Charles Hamilton Kean, is much puzzled by Kean's choice of a play: "You know how strict he is in these matters of period and cannot wonder at his being baffled by such antiquarian fibs as Shakespeare tells us in Winter's tale." Address on item: Park Street.

2 leaves ; 18 x 12 cm.

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Smith, Emma Hamilton, active 19th century

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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

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Kean, Charles John, 1811?-1868

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