Autograph letters signed from Louisa H. Merivale to various recipients [manuscript], 19th century.

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Autograph letters signed from Louisa H. Merivale to various recipients [manuscript], 19th century.

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Recipients: Mrs. Kean (probably Mary Kean) and Charles Kean. (1), undated and addressed to Mrs. Kean, 17 Great Ryder St., St. James's Square, offers words of comfort and hope that her husband (Edmund Kean?) will one day recognize "what he has inflicted upon one of the tenderest of wives." Merivale adds that she hopes Kean "will still live to have great comfort in [her] son." Also mentions her, Merivale's, confinement with her eleventh pregnancy. In (2), dated July 22, 1859 and with the salutation "My dear Mr. Kean," Merivale mentions reading the speech the Duke of Newcastle gave at a banquet given for Kean and wishes his mother could have lived to see him so honored. (2) written from Barton Place, Exeter.

2 items ; 16 x 10 cm to 23 x 19 cm.

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