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Title: Dion Boucicault letter, 1843 October 30
Creator: Boucicault, Dion, 1820-1890
Date Created and/or Issued: 1843-10-30
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 Henry Colburn, publisher of the New Monthly. Boucicault tells Colburn he would be glad to take the vacant Editorship at the magazine if Colburn is open to his services. Boucicault's object is, "not at present, pecuniary," though he does "not loose sight of that entirely." Letter bears a wax seal, a postage stamp, and several other stampings, some of which are faded.
Type: text
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: phl00544
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/phl/id/3057
Language: English
Subject: Letters
Seals (Closures)
Sealing-wax
Periodical editors
Boucicault, Dion, 1820-1890
Postage stamps
Place: London (England)
Source: Handwritten letter, 8 x 5 inches: Philbrick Library of Dramatic Arts and Theatre History, Autograph letters box 2, folder 1; 4 pages; For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact Honnold Mudd Library Special Collections at http://libraries.claremont.edu/sc
Relation: Philbrick Library Collection of Theater Letters - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/phl

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