Autograph letter signed from Wendell Phillips to Pugh [manuscript], 1875 May.

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Autograph letter signed from Wendell Phillips to Pugh [manuscript], 1875 May.

Writes that Woollett, the reader, has a marvelous memory which enables him to give a whole Shakespeare play without a book; mentions Fanny Kemble. Letter is addressed "Dear Pugh."

2 leaves ; 21 x 13 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7440529

Folger Shakespeare Library

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Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893

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Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble (27 November 1809 – 15 January 1893) was a British actress from a theatre family in the early and mid-19th century. She was a well-known and popular writer and abolitionist, whose published works included plays, poetry, eleven volumes of memoirs, travel writing and works about the theatre. In 1834, Kemble married a wealthy Philadelphian, Pierce Mease Butler, grandson of U.S. Senator Pierce Butler, whom she had met on an American acting tour with her father in 1832....

Woollett, Sidney

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Pugh, fl. 1875

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Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884

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Wendell Phillips (born November 29, 1811, Boston, Massachusetts – died February 2, 1884, Boston, Massachusetts), orator and reformer, was one of the leaders of the abolitionist movement in Boston, Massachusetts, wrote frequently for William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator, and eventually became president of the American Anti-Slavery Society. He contributed much to the cause through inflammatory speeches favoring the division of the Union and opposing the acquisition of Texas and the war with Mexico. ...