Frances Maria Kelly manuscript material : 2 items, 1833

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Frances Maria Kelly manuscript material : 2 items, 1833

· To the editor of the Court Journal : 1 autograph letter signed : 22 May 1833 : (MISC 0978) : from Strand Theatre : begins, "Enclosed is a short address [no longer present] which I shall this evening give at the close of my entertainment ..." · To "Dear Sir" : 1 autograph letter signed : "Wedensday" 3 Oct [no year] : (MISC 0979) : begins, "If you have not at this moment in use my volume of "The Biographia Dramatica" be so kind as to send it to me ..."

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SNAC Resource ID: 7623537

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834

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Charles Lamb was born to John and Elizabeth (Field) Lamb in London on February 10, 1775. Two of his siblings survived to adulthood, John (1763-1821) and Mary Ann (1764-1847). Charles Lamb studied at Christ's Hospital but left the school at the age of fifteen due to his chronic stammering. He began working as a secretary and later entered the mercantile trade, joining the East India Company as a clerk in the accounting department in 1792. Mental illness ran in the Lamb family, and C...

Kelly, Frances Maria, 1790-1882

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Frances Maria Kelly (1790-1882) was a British actress & singer. From the description of Letter from Frances Maria Kelly to Robert William Elliston, 1822. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 81092583 Frances Maria "Fanny" Kelly, English actress and singer. In 1819 she rejected a marriage proposal from the essayist Charles Lamb, but remained friends with him and his sister Mary. From the description of Frances Mari...