Autograph letters signed from Helena Faucit Martin to various recipients [manuscript], 1837-1894.

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Autograph letters signed from Helena Faucit Martin to various recipients [manuscript], 1837-1894.

Recipients: [Alfred Bunn?], Dr. Cahill, [William] Creswick, T.D. Davenport, George Hadden, [Anna Maria Hall?], [Alexander] Ireland, Hermann Kinett, [Charles] Kingsley, [John Mitchell?], [William Henry Wood?] Murray, Ada Rehan, Clement Scott, George Tawse, Florence Tottenham, [Benjamin] Webster, Sir William and Lady Wilde, Lewis Wingfield, R.H. Wyndham, the theatrical editior of the Literary gazette, Dublin University magazine, and unidentified persons. Not all are autograph letters signed. Some letters are undated. (21) mentions the opening of the new Stratford Memorial Theatre.

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Bunn, Alfred, 1796?-1860

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English theatrical manager and poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [London], 15 August 1846, to Mr. F. Seymour, 1846 Aug. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873190 Epithet: theatrical manager and writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000815.0x0002bc Theater manager. From the description of Letter of Alfred Bunn, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record ...

Scott, Clement W., 1841-1904

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Clement William Scott was born in 1841 in London, England; attended Marlborough College, and became a clerk at the War office in 1860; became author and drama critic, contributing pieces to the Daily telegraph, Sunday times, Weekly dispatch, London Figaro, The observer, and others; after retiring from the civil service in 1879, he joined the staff of the Daily telegraph as drama critic, and also became editor of the Theatre in 1880; adapted French plays for the London stage; published works incl...

Ireland, Alexander, 1810-1894

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Alexander Ireland (1810–1894) was a Scottish journalist, man of letters, and bibliophile, notable as a biographer of Ralph Waldo Emerson as well as a friend of Emerson and other literary celebrities, including Leigh Hunt and Thomas Carlyle, and the geologist and scientific speculator Robert Chambers. His own most popular book was The Book-Lover's Enchiridion, published under a pseudonym in 1882. Ireland was born at Edinburgh on 9 May 1810; his father was a businessman. As a young man he had a...

Cahill, Dr., 19th cent.

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Wilde, W. R. (William Robert), 1815-1876

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Irish physician, father of Oscar Wilde. From the description of Note, undated : [Dublin], to Mrs. Simpkinson. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35663724 ...

Kinett, Hermann, 19th cent.

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Mitchell, John, 1806-1874

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Wingfield, Lewis, 1842-1891

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Royal Shakespeare Theatre (Stratford-upon-Avon, England)

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Rehan, Ada, 1857-1916

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Ada Rehan was an Irish-American actress. From the description of Letter to Horace Howard Furness, 1890. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 206691443 Irish-American actress. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hotel Metropole, W.C., London, to Arthur Sullivan, 1891 Nov. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270126537 Irish-born American stage actress. From the description of Papers, ca. 1879-1918. (University ...

Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875

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English poet, apologist and naturalist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Eversley, to Fanny Grenfell, 1842 Nov. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864471 English clergyman, author, teacher. From the description of Letter, n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122549986 From the guide to the Charles Kingsley letter, undated, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Author and clergyman of the Church of England. From the de...

Hadden, George, 19th cent.

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Davenport, Thomas, 1802-1851

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Blacksmith, of Brandon, Vt., who constructed an electric motor in 1834 that was patented in 1837. From the description of Thomas Davenport correspondence, 1836-1837. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70984105 ...

Wilde, Lady, 1826-1896

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Linguist, poet, Irish patriot, central figure in a London literary cirlcle, mother of Oscar Wilde. From the description of Letter to S.J. Odonaghue, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 68940816 ...

Tawse, George

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Tottenham, Florence, 19th cent.

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Creswick, William, 1813-1888

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English actor. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to W. Day, 1886 Jan. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270877456 From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Charles E. Flower, 1881 Jan. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270877450 ...

Murray, William H. (William Henry), 1790-1852

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Epithet: actor-manager British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000985.0x0002ff ...

Webster, Benjamin, 1797-1882

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Benjamin Webster (1797-1882) was an actor, playwright, and theatre manager. Born in Bath, his father was a dancing and fencing master; Webster attended military school, but avoided a proferred commission by running away to become an actor. He eventually reached the stage as a popular actor, dancer, pantomimist, and violinist. He also built and managed the Adelphi Theatre, managed the Haymarket, Olympic, Princess's, St. James, and London Theatres. Webster additionally wrote or adapted numerous pl...

Martin, Helena Faucit, 1814-1898

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Helena Faucit Martin (1814-1898) was a British actress ? she married Sir Theodore Martin in 1851. From the description of Letter by Helena Faucit Martin to John Harley, ca. 1850? (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122584955 English writer, born Helena Faucit Saville, who later became Lady Martin. From the description of The Lazar's grave, [18--]. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64062202 ...

Hall, S. C., Mrs., 1800-1881

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Anna Maria Hall, née Fielding, Irish-born writer. From the description of Mrs. S. C. Hall manuscript material : 1 item, [ca. early 1850's] (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 666533041 Mrs. Cunningham was the wife of Allan Cunningham, Scottish poet and biographer of Robert Burns. From the description of Letter : to Mrs. Allan Cunningham, [between 1842 and 1860?] / Anna Maria Hall. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 36864744 I...

Wyndham, Robert Henry Sharp, 1814-1894

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