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Description
Ellen Kean writes to Fanny Rose about her personal life. She describes her illness and how it affected her stage work. She also gives a short account of her husband, Charles Kean, and a recent theatre performance. She contemplates retirement and ends the letter with an observation on society. Letter contains an embossing and a watermark.
Diseases Embossing (Printing) Kean, Charles John, 1811?-1868 Kean, Ellen, 1805-1880 Letters Performances Retirement Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Henry VIII Signatures (Writing) Watermarks
Source
Handwritten letter, autographed, 4.63 x 7.38 inches: Philbrick Library of Dramatic Arts and Theatre History, Autograph letters box 9, folder 74; 8 pages
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