SIDDONS, SARAH. Autograph letter signed (in full) to her brother, the actor John Philip Kemble at the Drury Lane Theatre, Bath, 3 April [before 1803], 3 pages, 12mo, some stains, top edges irregularly cut: "I wish you could run down here for a week: it would recruit your own health and perhaps cheer Mr. Siddons [her husband] up a little. I think -- and our Medical adviser also thinks...that it is a case past hope. O John fond Brother and Sister as we have been and are -- associated in may and many a theatrical struggle which, D.V., has culminated in glorious professional triumph that has made the Kemble family illustrious -- dear John, whom I love as dearly as Volumnia [her role in Coriolanus] loved her son -- don't forget me or neglect me in this crisis..."; Autograph letter signed ("S. Siddons") to a Mr. Cockerell, n.p., 22 April 1813, 2 1/2 pages, 4to, remnants of mounting on verso of integral second leaf, central horizontal fold, regarding the disposal of a house in Southampton: "...Into your hands allow me my dear Sir to put my cause, for I am ignorance itself...to have done with the business is the next best thing to have never known of such a house. I wish I could have come to you tomorrow...but I cannot, and if I could, I should fear it might incapacitate me for my evenings toil. The hateful subject always shakes my nerves to a degree that I am ashamed to acknowledge and I believe it is my utter inability of helping myself in it that makes it so painful to me..." With typed transcripts. (Milne) (2)

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SIDDONS, SARAH. Autograph letter signed (in full) to her brother, the actor John Philip Kemble at the Drury Lane Theatre, Bath, 3 April [before 1803], 3 pages, 12mo, some stains, top edges irregularly cut: "I wish you could run down here for a week: it would recruit your own health and perhaps cheer Mr. Siddons [her husband] up a little. I think -- and our Medical adviser also thinks...that it is a case past hope. O John fond Brother and Sister as we have been and are -- associated in may and many a theatrical struggle which, D.V., has culminated in glorious professional triumph that has made the Kemble family illustrious -- dear John, whom I love as dearly as Volumnia [her role in Coriolanus] loved her son -- don't forget me or neglect me in this crisis..."; Autograph letter signed ("S. Siddons") to a Mr. Cockerell, n.p., 22 April 1813, 2 1/2 pages, 4to, remnants of mounting on verso of integral second leaf, central horizontal fold, regarding the disposal of a house in Southampton: "...Into your hands allow me my dear Sir to put my cause, for I am ignorance itself...to have done with the business is the next best thing to have never known of such a house. I wish I could have come to you tomorrow...but I cannot, and if I could, I should fear it might incapacitate me for my evenings toil. The hateful subject always shakes my nerves to a degree that I am ashamed to acknowledge and I believe it is my utter inability of helping myself in it that makes it so painful to me..." With typed transcripts. (Milne) (2)