Autograph letter signed from Edmund Kean, Belfast, to R. Phillips, Covent Garden, London [manuscript], 1824 November 21.

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Autograph letter signed from Edmund Kean, Belfast, to R. Phillips, Covent Garden, London [manuscript], 1824 November 21.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/635510986

Encloses "one of the prettiest [illegible] that was ever written in [Kean's] favour" (no longer with letter), which Kean hopes Phillips can get into the London papers.

2 leaves ; 23 x 19 cm.

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Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833

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Edmund Kean (1787-1833) was an English actor. From the guide to the Edmund Kean Collection, 1814-1933, (Princeton University. Library. Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections) Edmund Kean (1787-1833) was an English actor associated with the Drury Lane Theatre. An affair with Charlotte Cox, the wife of prominent alderman Robert Cox, led to an adultery trial against Kean in 1825 and his subsequent travel outside of England. Kean returned to the English stage in 1827 and re...

Phillips, R., fl. 1824

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