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[AMERICAN & ENGLISH THEATRE]. Comprising 17 ALS and 2 photographs signed by 19th- and 20th-century performers. Jenny LIND (ALS, 16 May 1811), Sarah BERNHARDT (ALS, 2 pp., 1879, on small black-bordered stationery with initialed crest), Mary ANDERSON (ANS, undated), Edwin BOOTH (ALS, 2 pp., 1882, with portrait in costume), Henry IRVING (undated ALS on Lyceum Theatre stationery, stains), Helena MODZIESKA (ALS, 1894; formal portrait), Lawrence BARRETT (ALS, 1888), J.B. BOOTH (ALS), Mrs. Patrick CAMPBELL (ALS, 1897), Charlotte CUSHMAN (ALS, 1852), John Augustin DALY (ALS, 1890), Emma AMES (CDV portrait in elaborate dress costume), William J. FLORENCE (ALS, 1886) and four others. (17)
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[AMERICAN & ENGLISH THEATRE]. Comprising 17 ALS and 2 photographs signed by 19th- and 20th-century performers. Jenny LIND (ALS, 16 May 1811), Sarah BERNHARDT (ALS, 2 pp., 1879, on small black-bordered stationery with initialed crest), Mary ANDERSON (ANS, undated), Edwin BOOTH (ALS, 2 pp., 1882, with portrait in costume), Henry IRVING (undated ALS on Lyceum Theatre stationery, stains), Helena MODZIESKA (ALS, 1894; formal portrait), Lawrence BARRETT (ALS, 1888), J.B. BOOTH (ALS), Mrs. Patrick CAMPBELL (ALS, 1897), Charlotte CUSHMAN (ALS, 1852), John Augustin DALY (ALS, 1890), Emma AMES (CDV portrait in elaborate dress costume), William J. FLORENCE (ALS, 1886) and four others. (17)