DALLAS (Isabella, née Gearns, 1823-1889, Shakespearean Actress and Reader Isabella Glyn)

Autograph Letter Signed 'Isabella Dallas Glyn' to 'Sir', asking if he can "spare me some dozen of your circulars issued about my Readings? And why did you not qote from The Times - Daily News - and daily Papers? Have you seen this week's Punch? It is admirable for quoting! I cut it out for you", and asking him to let her know "about Leamington", 3 sides 8vo, 6 Hanover Square, London, W., 20th December n.y., c. ten lines of old shorthand in pencil on blank fourth side, also faint trace there of laying down by one edge

Isabella, who acted under her mother's maiden name of Glyn, made her début at Manchester as 'Constance' in 'King John' in 1847, and played 'Cleopatra' at the Princess' Theatre, Oxford Street, in 1867. She was married to the journalist and author E.S. Dallas, 1828-1879, whom she divorced in 1874.

Item Date:  1867

Stock No:  17030      £35

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