sister of John Coleridge Patteson, (1827-1871, first Bishop of Melanesia), saying she has been "very sorry to get so bad an account of you. the weather is enough to make any one ill", and sympathising, "having had all my inside machinery put out of order by the cold - let us pray for fair weather", 2 sides 4�" x 3�", 'Thursday 26th' no month, no year, circa Fanny Kemble, daughter of Charles and niece of Mrs Siddons, first appeared on the stage in 1829 as Juliet, when her father was threatened with bankruptcy, never having acted before. In 1834 when touring America with her father, she married Pierce Butler, 1807-1867, but disliking her husband's ownership of slaves, spent time away acting and giving readings in America and England, leading to their divorce. In 1877-1878 she returned permanently to London to live alternately with her two daughters and their families.

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Autograph Letter Signed to Miss Patteson, (Frances Anne, Mrs Pierce Butler, 1809-1893, Shakespearean Actress as 'Fanny Kemble')

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1880

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