Autograph letter signed from Fannie Murdoch, Cincinnati, to George Becks [manuscript], 1891 November 30.

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Autograph letter signed from Fannie Murdoch, Cincinnati, to George Becks [manuscript], 1891 November 30.

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Murdoch wishes she could describe her father's methods. Mentions that "Hamlet and Mirabel always exhausted him for he threw himself so thoroughly into the characters, becoming the characters themselves, as it were." Written from Cincinnati, O., Reading Road bel. Oak St.

2 leaves ; 21 x 13 cm.

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