Autograph letter signed from H.F. Egerton, London, to Frances Anne Kemble [manuscript], 1838 Sunday March 4.

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Autograph letter signed from H.F. Egerton, London, to Frances Anne Kemble [manuscript], 1838 Sunday March 4.

H.F. Egerton, the correspondent, is possibly Harriet Catherine Egerton, later countess of Ellesmere. Mentions meeting Thomas Sully and seeing his head of Fanny Kemble exhibited at the British Gallery.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7483851

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....

Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872

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Artist Thomas Sully was born in London, although his actor parents soon emigrated to the United States. A trip back to England to study painting expanded his horizons, and upon his return to the United States he developed a reputation as a first rate painter. He specialized in portraits, especially portraits of women, and painted full-length portraits of many public and private figures. He is perhaps most closely associated with his portrait of Queen Victoria and for his painting, Washington cro...

Egerton, Francis, Lady, 1800-1866

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