Autograph Letters Signed and Autograph Drafts Signed from Charles John Kean to Various Recipients
Autograph Letters Signed and Autograph Drafts Signed from Charles John Kean to Various Recipients

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(135) includes a draft of an agreement between Kean and James Sheridan Knowles for a new play, July 15, 1840. (198) has a penny black stamp of October 1840. (293) wants to talk to Shaw about King Lear which he means to throw into the 8th cent. Enclosed with (299) is the first part of a letter to Kean from [George] Bartley, September 27, 1849.

Autograph Letters Signed from James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, West Brompton, London, to Charles John Kean
Autograph Letters Signed from James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, West Brompton, London, to Charles John Kean

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Letter (1) expresses his criticism of Mr. Fechter in the role of Hamlet, in that he was not suited for Shakespearean characters, and his admiration of Mr. Kean in the same role. (2-3) discuss arrangements for Mr. and Mrs. Kean's readings at St. James' Hall for the benefit of the Shakespeare Fund on June 26, 1863, and quote the resolution of the Committee thanking them for their efforts.