Autograph letter signed from W. Chrystie Miller, Staten Island, to Mr. Whitelaw Saunders, Wamego, Kansas [manuscript], 1916 July 1.

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Autograph letter signed from W. Chrystie Miller, Staten Island, to Mr. Whitelaw Saunders, Wamego, Kansas [manuscript], 1916 July 1.

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Miller recounts highlights of his acting career, including Benvolio to Edwin Booth's Romeo and Shallow to the Falstaff of James H. Hackett in the Merry wives of Windsor. On illustrated letterhead of the Actors' Fund Home, Staten Island. Signed Wm. Chrystie Miller.

1 item ; 25 x 16 cm.

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