John Lawrence Toole autograph collection, 1750-1903 and undated.

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John Lawrence Toole autograph collection, 1750-1903 and undated.

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An autograph collection possibly compiled by Toole containing letters and portraits of eighteenth and nineteenth-century English actors and playwrights. Includes engravings of Guiseppe De Begnis, John Fawcett, Charles Mathews, Benjamin Wrench as Benedick in Much ado about nothing, watercolor of [John] Liston as Paul Pry by J. Clayton Clarke, and a signed photograph of Toold, among other portraits. Also includes letters to Toole from Henry William George Paget Anglesey, Charles James Mathews, Benjamin Webster, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, John Baldwin Buckstone, Shirley Brooks, Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan, Lawrence Barrett, James Robertson Planche, and William Ewart Gladstone, among others. Also includes letters by Charles Dickens, among other correspondence.

3 v. (.33 linear ft.)

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