Autograph letter signed from Joseph Jefferson, Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts, to Miss Elizabeth Sullivan, Grand Hotel 81, Chautauqua, N.Y. [manuscript], 1901 August 26.

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Autograph letter signed from Joseph Jefferson, Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts, to Miss Elizabeth Sullivan, Grand Hotel 81, Chautauqua, N.Y. [manuscript], 1901 August 26.

Further explains his feeling that an actor's work dies with him, in contrast with the tangible work of a painter, sculptor, architect or poet. Quotes Macbeth, albeit imprecisely: "a poor player who struts his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more."

2 leaves.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7525960

Folger Shakespeare Library

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Jefferson, Joseph, 1829-1905

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American actor. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Palm Beach, to Mrs. Sullivan, 1903 Feb. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270489232 From the description of [Letter] 1893 Feb. 22 [to] Madame / J. Jefferson. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 244251899 From the description of Letter, 1893. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155451408 From the description of Autograph letter signed : to Clancy and Reilly, 1880 Mar. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat reco...

Sullivan, Elizabeth, fl. 1901

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