Collection of autograph letters and other material concerning a performance of As you like it at Coombe House, 1884-1885.

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Collection of autograph letters and other material concerning a performance of As you like it at Coombe House, 1884-1885.

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Collection of 21 autograph letters signed from various correspondents to Janey Sevilla Callender Campbell and her husband. Correspondents: C.H. Aidé, F.F. Atkinson, Baron Calthorpe, H. Cook, Edward VII, Mary Egerton, Charles J. Foss, Constance Leslie, Eli Maillory, Sir Charles Newton, Harry Saint Maur, C. Sartoris, Hugh Sweny, Hermann Vezin, Alexander Yorke and others. The entire collection deals with amateur performances of "As you like it" produced by Lord and Lady Campbell in 1884 and 1885, at Coombe House. Includes 2 poems, "To the Ladie Archibald Campbell" and "A reminiscence of Coombe, As you like it;" and apothegm complimenting Lady Archibald; a prologue, "To our gentle audience;" a petition to the Queen for permission to stage the productions, signed by T.H. Clifton; and 2 letters, one from R.[A.] Handcock to [Edward Wm.] Godwin and the other from Henry Spicer to Mrs. Sartoris. Poem and prologue listed in the Folger index of first lines.

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