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MANUSCRIPT COPY OF FANNY KEMBLE’S POEM “TO MISS -”
KEMBLE
(Frances Anne, Mrs Pierce Butler, 1809-1893, Shakespearean Actress as 'Fanny Kemble')
Autograph Fair Copy of her poem signed ‘Fanny’,
as if in farewell, beginning Time beckons on the hours, th'expiring year Already feels cold winter's icy breath, spring will bring the hour of parting from the harbour where my heart Sometime had found a peaceful resting place... Tis true I leave no void, the happy home To which you welcomed me will be as gay, yet Perchance my name will be pronounced again... Think of me then; nor break kind mem'rys spell By reason's censure coldly o'er me cast Think only that I loved ye passing well And let my follies slumber with the past, 28 lines on 2 sides 4to. with conjugate blank, no place, no date, watermark
Item Date: 1827
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She has written at the bottom “Not so Lazy”.
She was a well-known and popular writer and abolitionist whose published works included plays, poetry, eleven volumes of memoirs, travel writing, and works about the theatre. She lived for many years in the United States, primarily in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Lenox, Massachusetts.
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