Records of the Varieties Theatre, 1847-1976 (inclusive), 1856-1867 (bulk).

Lee, Henry, 1817-1898

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Harvard overseer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Boston], to "my dear Doctor," [18--?] Mar. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 743860470 Lee graduated from Harvard in 1836 and served as Overseer of Harvard. From the description of Papers of Henry Lee, 1868-1894 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972818 ...

Cabot, Edward.

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Varieties Theatre (Brookline, Mass.)

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The Varieties Theatre, a private theatre, was built in the Brookline home of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Cabot IV, in 1855. The theatre was used frequently for amateur performances by the Cabots and the Lees from 1856 through 1858, and thereafter less regularly. In 1857 Fanny Kemble played Mrs. Malaprop in The Rivals at the theatre with the amateur company, including Henry Lee as Sir Anthony Absolute. The backdrops and stage curtain were painted by Edward and Elliot Cabot, ca. 1856-1857. They appear to ...

Shattuck, George C. (George Cheyne), 1813-1893

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Shattuck (Harvard, M.D. 1835) was professor of clinical medicine at Harvard Medical School from 1855 until 1874, served as dean of the Medical School, and succeeded Oliver Wendell Holmes as visiting physician to the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1849. After graduation from medical school, he went to Paris with his friends H. I. Bowditch, A. Stillé, and Metcalfe to study with Louis. In 1838 he and Stillé read papers which differentiated typhus from typhoid fever before the Paris Society for...

Cabot, Elliot.

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Shattuck, Virginia.

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