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| Title
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Original Letters of Dramatic Performers. Collected and Arranged by C B Smith. Vol IX
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| Date
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1 Jan 1801-1851
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| Document Type
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Scrapbook Correspondence
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| Library/Archive
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The Garrick Club Library
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| Collection Name
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Portraits and letters
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| Language
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English
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| Document Description
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This scrapbook contains the correspondence of actors between from around 1800 to the 1850s. There are also portraits and illustrations of actors in ordinary dress as well as in costume, newspaper clippings and biographical notes relating to those mentioned.
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| Theme
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Modes of Performance: Costume, Scenography & Spectacle Business & Finance Celebrity Culture & Fashion Opera Women in Eighteenth Century Drama
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| Theatre
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Covent Garden Theatre Theatre Royal Drury Lane The King's Theatre, Haymarket Vauxhall Gardens Adelphi Theatre
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| Actor
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Ashton, Mr Alvertazzi, Elizabeth Bassano, Miss Meaumont, Miss Beckett Bennett, W E Bennett, Stephen Bishop, Mrs Borrani, C G Bristow, Miss Brooke, M G Brown, S J Bruce, Miss Brundenell, Mrs Brunton, John Buckstone, John Baldwin Butler G B Chapman, Mrs Cleaver, Miss Coveney, Miss Creswick, William Dalbas, Madame Dennett, Miss Dennett, Susan Dimond, William Downe, J J Dowton, William Junior Egan, Miss Emery, Samuel Favanti, Madame Fawcett, Miss Fawcett, Mrs Ferraris, Amalia Finart Finart, Signora Fitzharris, W H Fitzwilliam, Mrs Gasperini, T Glover, Miss Granby, C W Gray, R W Haines, J T Harding, Miss Hargreave, Miss Harrison, B Hill, Mrsl Howell, M Il Diavolo, Antonio Jefferini, J Jones, George Laurent, Emile Macready, W C Montes, Lola Lyons, Louisa Macnamara, Mrs Maria, Madame Martyn, T Menage, W Merry, Mrs Osbaldiston, D W Parry, Tom Phelps, Samuel Pindar, Mrs Prospere, Eugene Pyne, Jack Rachel, Madame Risley, Richard Roger, James Rowbotham, H H Saqui, Madame Silsbee, Joshua Simpson, Henry Sloman, John Stirling, Mrs Storace, Signora Taylor, Miss Treffz, Jetty von Turpin, James Webster, Miss Wigan, Alfred Wigan, Mrs
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| Compiler (of scrapbooks)
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Smith, Charles Britiffe
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| Keywords
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actor women singer career costume performance death biography newspaper employment dancer theatre politics ticket correspondence acrobat America autograph ballet character Christmas Harlequin juggle marriage pantomime portrait sister success theatre manager trick
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| Copyright
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The Garrick Club Library
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