Sales catalogue 573: Maggs Bros

Date:
1932
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/117
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 573: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    eerie cemescee te ce 2 SAN CERC GN ect ARE AR id A ae 663 KEAN (ELLEN, 1805-1880). Shakespearian Actress. Wife of Charles Kean. _ AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO MR. CLAYTON. 4 pp., 8vo. 13th October, N.y. £2 10s An extremely interesting letter concerning a performance of the _‘“ Merchant of Venice ’’ during which voices were heard by the actors, confusing them, and making Charles Kean forget his words. “Something occurred last evening which TI think it quite right you should know. During the whole of the trial scene of the Merchant of Venice there was a murmur of voices not loud enough for an audience to take up and subdue at once by public expression and yet so distressingly audible, that Mr. Kean forgot the words, Mr. Ryder stumbled and as for myself I really do not know what [ said. I was so confused by this incessant talking. . . . It was four gentlemen with the Clayton cards, . _: + Never give them another chance for they cannot be capable of appreciating a great work.’ Etc. 664 KEAN (ELLEN). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. 3 pp., 8vo. Queensborough Terrace. N.D. 12s 6d Concerning her husband’s illness. ““. . . He is still very ill and it is absolutely impossible for him to think of actihg this season.” Etc. 665 KEAN (MARY). Wife of Edmund Kean, the Actor. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO MISS JANE PORTER. Iz pp., 4to. 30th March (1817). £1 18s ‘My dear Madam, on looking over Mr. Lamb’s letter, I find I cannot send it, a b) there is so much I should not like Mr. Rea to see and T cannot tear it off, therefore you had better write to him and say you understood from Mr. Lamb the parts were to have been written out immediately on its being sent to the Theatre.’’ Etc. 606 KEAN (MARY). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO HER HUSBAND, THE FAMOUS ACTOR. I full page, 4to. N.D. Circa February 1827. £1 10s ‘“My dear Edmund this bill is for your carriage . . . it is the custom to pay a year in advance, it is you will see for the year 1827 . . . Will you see me—I had the same to pay before I used your present carriage . . . do pray see me I am not in fault.’’
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