Autograph letter signed from Edwin Booth, Philadelphia, to Asa Israel Fish [manuscript], 1866 November 25 Sunday.

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Autograph letter signed from Edwin Booth, Philadelphia, to Asa Israel Fish [manuscript], 1866 November 25 Sunday.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/502997014

Booth thanks Fish for the loan of books and refers to the plays and identity of Shakespeare.

2 leaves ; 21 x 13 cm.

Folger Shakespeare Library

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Folger Shakespeare Library

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Fish, Asa I. (Asa Israel), 1820-1879

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Asa I. Fish was a lawyer in Philadelphia and a director of the Camden and Amboy Railroad in New Jersey. From the description of Journals of trips to New Jersey, New York, and New Orleans, 1866-1902. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 38989454 Asa I. Fish was a Philadelphia lawyer, poet, and a director of the Camden and Amboy Railroad. From the description of Critical studies of Tennyson's In memoriam, and Keats's The eve of St. Agnes, ...

Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893

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American actor. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : New York and Chicago, to Elsie Leslie, 1889 Dec. 5 and 1890 Mar. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270532629 From the description of Letters, 1858, 1887. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 56685372 Edwin Booth (1833-1893) was the son of Junius Brutus Booth, the great British tragedian, and the older brother of John Wilkes Booth; Edwin was best known for his Shakespearean roles. ...