Autograph letters signed from Emma Hamilton Smith, Plymouth, to Charles John Kean and Ellen Kean, 19th century.

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Autograph letters signed from Emma Hamilton Smith, Plymouth, to Charles John Kean and Ellen Kean, 19th century.

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(1-5) are to Charles John Kean. (1-4) concern the research Smith and her father, Charles Hamilton Smith, did for Kean's production of The winter's tale. With (2), watercolors of Longbeard Odin with one eye, Manci?, Thor, Thor's hammer, and pillar god. (5) concerns Dryden's King Arthur and a drawing her father made of a hall described in the Edda. (6), addressed to Mrs. Kean, mentions Charles Kean's Louis XI, Hamlet, and Lear. With the exception of (2) and (3), dated June 22nd, 1855 and July 11th, 1855 respectively, the letters are undated. Address on all letters: Park Street.

6 items ; 19 x 12 cm.

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