Fanny Kemble papers, 1829-1874.

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Fanny Kemble papers, 1829-1874.

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Correspondence, chiefly with Joshua Francis Fisher, relating to Kemble's divorce in 1849 from Pierce Butler; legal and financial papers relating to the divorce settlement; two volumes of a journal consisting of material used in Kemble's Journal of a Residence in America (1835) which was critical of American social life and customs; and a manuscript copy of the play "An English Tragedy." Correspondents include Pierce Butler, C.H. Fisher, Theodore Sedgwick, and Samuel Gray Ward.

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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....

Fisher, Joshua Francis, 1807-1873

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Joshua Fisher was a Philadelphia lawyer. From the description of Diary, 1848. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122465471 ...

Fisher, C. H. (Charles Henry)

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Butler, Pierce, 1807-1867

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Sedgwick, Theodore, 1811-1859

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Charles Babbage was a mathematician and inventor. From the guide to the Charles Babbage selected correspondence, 1827-1871, 1827-1871, (American Philosophical Society) Theodore Sedgwick of Albany, NY, entered the American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy (forerunner of Norwich University) in 1823 and graduated in 1826. Following his graduation, he practiced law and held several offices within the federal government. Sedgwick was appointed U.S. attorney for the south...

Fisher, C. H. (Charles Henry)

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