Autograph letter signed from Laura Keene, New York, to unidentified recipient [manuscript], 19th century Saturday morning.

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Autograph letter signed from Laura Keene, New York, to unidentified recipient [manuscript], 19th century Saturday morning.

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Keene will be home all day. Letter opens "Dear Sir." Written from 703 Broadway.

1 leaf ; 17 x 11 cm.

Folger Shakespeare Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7556778

Folger Shakespeare Library

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Keene, Laura, 1826-1873

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Actress starring in the play "Our American Cousin" in Washington, D.C. the night Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. She was said to have taken a pitcher of water to him and cradled his head, thus staining her gown with his blood. From the description of Papers. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 52112391 Laura Keene was a nineteenth-century actress who was playing in Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater the night Abraham Lincoln was shot. She was als...