BIB_ID
431201
Accession number
MA 1617.217
Creator
Jenkin, Anne Austin, -1921.
Display Date
Edinburgh, Scotland, 1882? July 7.
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Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.3 cm
Notes
This letter is one of twenty-nine letters from Anne Jenkin to Henley, most of which are undated, but appear to have been written between 1878-1883.
Written from "3 G't Stuart Street / Edinburgh" on stationery engraved with the address.
Written from "3 G't Stuart Street / Edinburgh" on stationery engraved with the address.
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Summary
Hoping to arrange a visit by the Henleys to Glenmorven, apologizing that her "...scheme of getting you into my place at the Gaiety broke down" and commenting on Mounet-Sully and comparing him to other actors; saying "I can not imagine why people do not simply succumb at once & allow him to be unrivaled - Partly I do believe because of the perfection - people want to see tracks of the difficulties overcome - tool marks - & his representation is as if it grew unhindered - perfect nature;" relating details of her day spent in a Sussex village; adding "I am reading much Matthew Arnold - poetry - It is dreary - but has a lovely sound - I think I might read to you sometimes at Glenmorven - I think I am learning to read."
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