Letters to and from Fanny Kemble [manuscript], 1829-1890.
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Letters to and from Fanny Kemble [manuscript], 1829-1890.
Description
4 v.
Associated name
Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893, correspondent.
Cobbe, Frances Power, 1822-1904, former owner.
Wister, Fanny Kemble, former owner.
Wister, Mary Channing, 1869-1913, addressee.
Cobbe, Frances Power, 1822-1904, former owner.
Wister, Fanny Kemble, former owner.
Wister, Mary Channing, 1869-1913, addressee.
Scope and content
Also, a few of her papers and some letters to and from other people. Notes at the beginning of W.b. 596-598 state that the letters in these volumes were given by Fanny Kemble to Frances Cobbe. Another note at the end of W.b.596, written by F.B.K., July 1930, refers to several letters from Miss Cobbe to Mrs. Owen Wister, 1893, which allude to Fanny Kemble's letters.
Note
Little arrangement except by writer. List of contents to each volume tipped in at the end of each. Each correspondent's letters cataloged separately.
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Source of acquisition
Gift of Mrs. Walter Stokes who used some of these letters in her book about her great grandmother, Fanny the American Kemble, 1972.
Item Details
Call number
W.b.596-599
Folger accession
MS Add 620