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Title: Dion Boucicault letter, 1861 November
Creator: Boucicault, Dion, 1820-1890
Date Created and/or Issued: 1861-11
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: Dion Boucicault (1820-1890) to a Mr. Reade, withrawing an offer allowing Reade to attend a rehearsal of Boucicault's own play, The Octoroon, or Life in Luisiana, about the love of a white man for a black slave girl. The artists have asked that the "imperfection of a rehearsal not be made public."
Type: text
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: phl00546
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/phl/id/3060
Language: English
Subject: Letters
Acting
Theater
Theater rehearsals
Plays
Boucicault, Dion, 1820-1890
Place: London (England)
Source: Handwritten letter, 7 x 4.375 inches: Philbrick Library of Dramatic Arts and Theatre History, Autographed letters box 2, folder 1; 2 pages
Relation: Philbrick Library Collection of Theater Letters - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/phl

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