Autograph Letters Signed from Edwina Booth Grossman, Hamburgh, Lakewood, New Jersey and New York, to Various People


Book Description

Correspondents: [Mary L.] Booth, Mother de Sales, [Edmund Clarence] Stedman and William Winter. (5) to Stedman concerns publishing Edwin Booth's letters. (6) to Winter discusses Edwin Booth's successes as Lear, Hamlet, and Othello in Germany.




Autograph Letter Signed from Edwin Booth, New York, to Edmund Clarence Stedman


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Booth writes, "I am pleased beyond measure that you like my conception of the Moor" and discusses the role. On letterhead of Everett House, Union Square, New York. Letter addressed "My dear Stedman." With an engraving of Booth in costume.




Autograph Letters Signed from John Gilbert, New York, to William Winter


Book Description

(1) Regarding a proof of an article Winter wrote on Mr. Wallack; (2) a sympathy letter likely referring to the death of Winter's son Arthur; (3) is a copy in Winter's hand. Gilbert has received Winter's "In memory of John McCullough." Refers to the report of an attack on Edwin Booth, which turned out to be an exaggeration. Each addressed from "The Winchester" 1244 Broadway.
















Autograph Letters Signed from Edwin Booth to A.I. Fish


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Letters in an album with press cuttings, pictures, etc., collected by Emma M. Chambers, arranged by John S. Chambers and bound by Parson & Nicholson, Philadelphia, 1893.







Autograph Letter Signed and Telegram from Edwin Booth to William Winter


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(1) Addressed from Lauret's Studio. Concerning an error which reflects badly on Booth who asks that redress be carried in the New York tribune. Winter passed the letter by Whitelaw Reid who wrote a comment, signed and dated it Tribune Office, 17 April 1871 on the verso of the second leaf. A stamped monogram on first leaf was cut out. (2) a telegram sent from Booth in Boston to Winter in Tompkinsville: "Have not his address. My dearest sympathy is yours." He is likely referring to the death of Winter's son, Arthur.