Letter to Owen Wister, 1893 January 23.

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Letter to Owen Wister, 1893 January 23.

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Thank you letter for allowing him to read personal letters from Frances Anne Kemble. Mentions his enjoyment of reading letters in the original. Mentions an 1885 letter from Lincoln and a small private publication of his: "Memoirs of T. Buchanan Read."

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893

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Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble (27 November 1809 – 15 January 1893) was a British actress from a theatre family in the early and mid-19th century. She was a well-known and popular writer and abolitionist, whose published works included plays, poetry, eleven volumes of memoirs, travel writing and works about the theatre. In 1834, Kemble married a wealthy Philadelphian, Pierce Mease Butler, grandson of U.S. Senator Pierce Butler, whom she had met on an American acting tour with her father in 1832....

Wister, Owen, 1860-1938

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Epithet: American author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000497.0x000028 Born in Pennsylvania, raised in South Carolina, and educated at Harvard, Owen Wister travelled in the Western U.S. as a young man. Although he returned to the East and Harvard law school, he acted upon a friend's suggestion and began writing thrilling Western stories for Harper's. His well-researched stories, particularly The Virginian, he...

Townsend, Henry Clay, 1822-1899,

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Owen Wister, American novelist, short story writer, biographer; grandson of Frances Kemble, best known for The Virginian, close friend of Teddy Roosevelt to whom the The Virginian is dedicated. From the description of Letter to Owen Wister, 1893 January 23. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 56672554 ...