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Title: Dion Boucicault letter, 1886 December 24
Creator: Boucicault, Dion, 1820-1890
Date Created and/or Issued: 1886-12-24
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 writes to Herman Charles Merivale, informing Merivale that he has "sent the little rodent Townsend [Boucicault's clerk]" $12.50. Boucicault also mentions that he will be putting up the rights to Merivale's 'Our Joan' for "$375 + costs." Letter is incomplete and bears letterhead from the Windsor Hotel at Dominion Square in Montreal. See Dion Boucicault letter, undated (phl00555) and Dion Boucicault letter, undated (phl00557) for more on the affair with Townsend.
Type: text
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: phl00558
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/phl/id/3186
Language: English
Subject: Boucicault, Dion, 1820-1890
Merivale, Herman Charles, 1839-1906
Letters
Letterheads
Signatures (Writing)
Place: Montréal (Québec)
Source: Handwritten letter, 5.25 x 5.5 inches: Philbrick Library of Dramatic Arts and Theatre History, Autograph letters box 2, folder 11; 2 pages
Relation: Philbrick Library Collection of Theater Letters - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/phl

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