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Title: Sarah Siddons letter to Harry Siddons, 1809 March 17
Creator: Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831
Date Created and/or Issued: 1809-03-17
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: Sarah Siddons writes her son, Harry (Henry) Siddons, regarding Henry's wife's loss of clothes and ornaments in the theatre fire, investments, a promise of a loan, her own need to move socially, and not living for one's self alone. The letter contains notations by a second hand. The last lines and signature are cut away. Page 4 is a self-cover and the page 4 scan was rotated 90 degrees clockwise.
Type: text
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: phl00211
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/phl/id/1328
Language: English
Subject: Siddons, Henry, 1774-1815
Investments
Loans
Letters
Source: Handwritten letter, autographed, 7.88 x 9.75 inches: Philbrick Library of Dramatic Arts and Theatre History, Autograph letters box 18, folder 13; 4 pages
Relation: Philbrick Library Collection of Theater Letters - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/phl

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