Autograph letters signed from Robert Clarke to John Pritt Harley [manuscript], 1841-1845.

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Autograph letters signed from Robert Clarke to John Pritt Harley [manuscript], 1841-1845.

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Both concern his friend Charles Kean. In (1) he writes of the possibility of Kean marrying, and in (2) he mentions that Kean has written him from America to send a prompt book of Lear as acted by Macready.

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