Autograph Letter Signed from Emma Hamilton Smith, Plymouth, to Charles John Kean
Autograph Letter Signed from Emma Hamilton Smith, Plymouth, to Charles John Kean

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Published: 1855

Total Pages: 4

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Letter concerns Kean's proposed production of The winter's tale; the writer's father, Charles Hamilton Kean, is much puzzled by Kean's choice of a play: "You know how strict he is in these matters of period and cannot wonder at his being baffled by such antiquarian fibs as Shakespeare tells us in Winter's tale." Address on item: Park Street.

Autograph Letters Signed from Emma Hamilton Smith, Plymouth, to Charles John Kean and Ellen Kean
Autograph Letters Signed from Emma Hamilton Smith, Plymouth, to Charles John Kean and Ellen Kean

Author: Charles Hamilton Smith

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Published: 1811

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(1-5) are to Charles John Kean. (1-4) concern the research Smith and her father, Charles Hamilton Smith, did for Kean's production of The winter's tale. With (2), watercolors of Longbeard Odin with one eye, Manci?, Thor, Thor's hammer, and pillar god. (5) concerns Dryden's King Arthur and a drawing her father made of a hall described in the Edda. (6), addressed to Mrs. Kean, mentions Charles Kean's Louis XI, Hamlet, and Lear. With the exception of (2) and (3), dated June 22nd, 1855 and July 11th, 1855 respectively, the letters are undated. Address on all letters: Park Street.

Autograph Letters Signed from Emma Hamilton Smith, Plymouth, to Charles John Kean
Autograph Letters Signed from Emma Hamilton Smith, Plymouth, to Charles John Kean

Author: Charles Hamilton Smith

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Published: 1811

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Letters concern antiquarian research Smith and her father, Charles Hamilton Smith, did for Kean's productions. The information included in most letters was likely intended for Kean's production of The winter's tale. (4) concerns costumes for Louis XI. (7) gives information about King Arthur. Some small sketches of costume design ideas included in (4) and (5). (2) and (4) are both incomplete. Address on letters: Park Street.