Letter from Hermine Rudersdorff, Maida Vale, to Charles Kean [manuscript], 1855 May 18.

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Letter from Hermine Rudersdorff, Maida Vale, to Charles Kean [manuscript], 1855 May 18.

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Rudersdorff writes that she appreciated last night's performance of Kean's production of Henry VIII. Although a foreigner, she is an ardent admirer of Shakespeare, whose tragedies she has seen in Dresden and Berlin.

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