Text / Ellen Kean letter to Mrs. Talfourd

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Title: Ellen Kean letter to Mrs. Talfourd
Creator: Kean, Ellen, 1805-1880
Publication Information: Honnold Mudd Library. Special Collections
Contributing Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
Collection: Philbrick Library Collection of Theater Letters
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact Honnold Mudd Library Special Collections at https://library.claremont.edu/scl/
Description: Ellen Kean writes a casual letter to a Mrs. Talfourd about various topics which include her children's illness, the landscape of Wardie Brae, the Surrey Zoological Garden, theatre business, and London gossip. First page contains two separate parts of the letter as one, later portion of the letter has been overwritten onto the first page. Letter contains an embossing, a seal, and handwritten notations.
Type: text
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: phl00438
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/phl/id/2423
Language: English
Subject: Children
Diseases
Embossing (Printing)
Gardens
Gossip
Letters
Performances
Sealing-wax
Signatures (Writing)
Source: Handwritten letter, autographed, 7.38 x 9 inches: Philbrick Library of Dramatic Arts and Theatre History, Autograph letters box 9, folder 73; 4 pages
Relation: Philbrick Library Collection of Theater Letters - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/phl

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