Autograph and typescript letters signed to Appleton Morgan from various correspondents [manuscript], 1850-1908.

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Autograph and typescript letters signed to Appleton Morgan from various correspondents [manuscript], 1850-1908.

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The majority of the letters concern Morgan's dealings with the Shakespeare Society of New York, the Colonial Club and the Reform Club. Several letters mention the Bankside Restoration Shakespeare series edited by Morgan. Correspondents include: F.W. Holland, William F. Morgan, Thomas Jefferson McKee, J. Woods Poinier, Alexander Burton Hagner, Whitelaw Reid, William Archer Cocke, J.M. Merrick, C.J. Reilly, John Eaton, Frederick William Seward, Algernon Sydney Sullivan, Geoge Shea, William King Rogers, N.[?] Fowler, Rev. R. Sprague, Henry J. Ramsdell, G.W. Carlton, Robert Harris, Ignatius Donnelly, Constance M. Pott (Mrs. Henry Pott), J.H. Nodal, Droste, Howard Malcolm Jenkins, Joseph Parker Norris, W.J. Rolfe, William Douglas O'Connor, T.W. Luagge, O'Toll, Alvey A. Ader, Frederick Hawley, H.P. Stokes, August Belmont, L.O. Amundson, George Washington Vanderbilt, James Grant Wilson, James R. Hawley, John Bartlett, Nelson Wheatcroft, William Fearing Gill, Sarah Heywood Trumbull, Martin Warren Cooke, Horace Porter, George Parsons Lathrop, Edwin Reed, T.J. Morgan, George Robert Sims, John Fiske, John Quincy Adams Ward, John J. Read, Molly Elliot Seawell, Richard Wayne Parker, William Travers Jerome, Fernand Henry, Edwin Warfield, M. Nagai, Moncure Daniel Conway, Peter Leary, Latham Davis, Felix Mansfield, R.L. Ashurst, Francis Wilson, H.O. Laug[r?], Francis Asbury Smith, Gustav Holzer, Henry Douglas Robinson, Paul Wilstach, Charles E. Phelps, Minnie Maddern Fiske, John Malone, Horace Howard Furness, W.J.R., Alfred H. Wall, Frank H. [surname illegible], Sir Edward Sullivan and other unidentified or illegible correspondents. Includes one postcard from Thomas Jefferson McKee to J.W. Poinier, Jr., Newark, New Jersey (4); one letter from J. Parker Norris to [William James?] Rolfe, on the topic of Appleton Morgan, dated 1885 (30); one letter in French from Fernand Henry, Le Muy Var (63); one letter to B. Frank Carpenter, Westfield, New Jersey, from Latham Davis, First National Bank, Omaha on meeting Dr. Morgan, dated 1907 (69); one letter in French and English from Copenhague, Direction de la Bibliothèque Royale, signed from H.O. Laug[r?] (77); and one invitation from The Players Club dated April 23, endorsed by Laurence Hutton (88). The letter from Alfred H. Wall includes a clipping pasted on the second leaf of the letter on the topic of Shakespeare's church at Stratford-on-Avon (92). Items (87-94) are undated.

94 items ; 14 x 11 cm to 29 x 22 cm.

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