Autograph Letter Signed (fragment) from Ellen Kean to Unidentified Recipient


Book Description

Discusses theatrical schedule, including several Shakespeare plays: Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, King Henry IV, and Much ado about nothing. Comments "I wish it was something stronger for Charles I do not like his doing anything so flowery immediately after Macready, but it cannot be avoided."










Autograph Letter Signed from Ellen Kean to Miss Drysdale


Book Description

Ellen Kean writes to a friend about her husband Charles Kean's transformative recovery from depression: "How I wish you could come see us and see our play and enjoy our brilliant triumph ... You who know how he can be depressed will feel how great and how blissful a change this is for me." Also describes A.E. Chalon's recently completed portrait of her and Charles Kean as "the best thing he has ever done."