BIB_ID
104615
Accession number
MA 9561.2
Creator
Kean, Ellen Tree, 1805-1880.
Display Date
[1842-1849].
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.3 x 11.5 cm
Notes
The letter is simply dated "Sunday night" however she has signed it Ellen Kean which dates it after January 29, 1842 when she married Charles Kean and took his name and before 30 March 1849, the date of the death of Mary Chambers Kean, Mrs. Kean's mother-in-law.
Summary
Mentioning her husband's illness and that of her mother-in-law; saying "We are just returned and of course act tomorrow night - but Charles is so prostrated from fatigue and distress of mind that his [illegible] he must not go out to rehearsal tomorrow morning. Mrs. Kean is easing(?) - and immediate danger is not now apprehended unless a change takes place - but I fear she is in a very precarious state - and we do not know but next post may summon us back again - I will come for Mr. W.'s 5th act if I can."
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