KENNEY

[Cinderella: William Brough, author and dramatist.] Autograph Letter Signed, asking the theatre critic Charles Lamb Kenney to give a notice to his brother Lionel Brough, ?in a new comic and musical Entertainment - subject ?Cinderella.??

Author:

William Brough (1826-1870), author and dramatist, brother of actor and comedian Lionel ?Lal? Brough (1836-1909) [Charles Lamb Kenney (1821-1881), playwright and theatre critic; Cinderella, pantomime]

Publication details:

?Lea Place / Tottenham / 1 March 1863?.

£30.00

See the entries in the Oxford DNB for his brothers Robert Barnabas Brough and the subject of this letter Lionel Brough, as well as that of C. L. Kenney. 1p, 12mo. On first leaf of bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged, with slight discoloration in one margin from the wax seal, and evidence of mount on blank second leaf. Folded for postage. Addressed to ?Chas Kenney Esq / &c &c? and signed ?William Brough?.

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[Augustus Mayhew, author, editor of the Comic Almanac.] Autograph Letter Signed to C. L. Kenney [?Charlie?], giving the legal position with regard to Kenney?s desire to get his hands on his infant son?s legacy.

Author:

Augustus Mayhew [Augustus Septimus Mayhew] (1826-1875), author, brother of Henry Mayhew, editor of the Comic Almanac [Charles Lamb Kenney (1821-1881), author and playwright]

Publication details:

?31st Octr. 1873 / Twickenham?.

£40.00

See his entry, and those of his brother and Kenney, in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. Bifolium. Twenty-two lines of text, addressed to ?C. L. Kenney Esq? and signed ?Aug: Mayhew?. In good condition, lightly aged, with thin strip of glue from mount adhering to blank reverse of second leaf. Begins: ?Dear Charlie/ Of course, we have to act under legal guidance.

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[Charles Kean, Shakespearian actor.] Autograph Letter Signed, asking Charles Lamb Kenney to report on the ‘parting words’ he proposes to give on his ‘intended retirement from management’, after the first performance of the new season.

Author:

Charles Kean [Charles John Kean] (1811-68), English Shakespearian actor and theatre manager, son of Edmund Kean, husband of Ellen Tree [Charles Lamb Kenney (1821-81), journalist, son of James Kenney]

Publication details:

‘30 August 1858 / 7 Upper Hyde Park St. / Hyde Park Squre’.

£65.00

See his entry, and those of his father, wife and Kenney, in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. On first leaf of a bifolium, the blank second leaf of which carries a thin strip of tape from the mount. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded twice. Good bold signature ‘C. Kean’. Begins: ‘My dear Kenney / Would you like a P[rivate]. Box or stalls next Friday, being the opening night of our season - I should like you to give a kind of notice of my past season and of my intended retirement from management next July, to which I shall refer in the parting words I purpose delivering according to the custom’.

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[Charles Lamb Kenney, author and playwright.] Autograph Letter Signed to his wife, with reference to the 1862 Great Exhibition, and dinner with William Makepeace Thackeray and his daughters.

Author:

Charles Lamb Kenney (1821-81), author and playwright, son of the Irish dramatist James Kenney (1780-1849) [William Makepeace Thackeray]

Publication details:

‘Saturday Nov. 1’. [London, 1862.]

£75.00

See his entry in the Oxford DNB, which states that he had two children - Charles Horace Kenney and the actress Rosa Kenney - by his marriage to Miss Rosa Stewart at the Paris embassy in 1859. 4pp, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. On bifolium, with thin strip of tape from mount adhering to the reverse of the second leaf. Folded once. Sixty-six lines of text, addressed to ‘Dearest Wife’ and signed ‘Your affectionate husband / C. L.

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[ Charles Kenney and Charles Kean. ] Autograph Letter Signed ('<Eleyn?> Zahn') by a half-sister of Kenney, requesting a private box for her sister and herself.

Author:

Ellen Zahn [nee Holfcroft ] (b.1808), half-sister of playwright Charles Kenney [ Charles Lamb Kenney ] (1821-1881) [ Charles Kean [ Charles John Kean ] (1811-1868), actor-manager ]

Publication details:

11 Hart Street, Bloomsbury [ London ]. No date.

£30.00

3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn, with unobtrusive spike hole through both leaves. The signature is unclear, and appears to read 'Eleyn Zahn', but the only one of Charles Kenney's sisters with a name beginning in 'E' was Ellen. She asks for a private box for the following Thursday on behalf of her sister 'V. Kenney [ Virginia Kenney, born 1821]and self'. She refers to his 'long and prosperous reign', and fears that it will be 'long before we shall enjoy the gratification of seeing both you and Mrs. Kean again, as we leave for Paris in a few days'.

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KENNEY

[Cinderella: William Brough, author and dramatist.] Autograph Letter Signed, asking the theatre critic Charles Lamb Kenney to give a notice to his brother Lionel Brough, ?in a new comic and musical Entertainment - subject ?Cinderella.??

[Augustus Mayhew, author, editor of the Comic Almanac.] Autograph Letter Signed to C. L. Kenney [?Charlie?], giving the legal position with regard to Kenney?s desire to get his hands on his infant son?s legacy.

[Charles Kean, Shakespearian actor.] Autograph Letter Signed, asking Charles Lamb Kenney to report on the ‘parting words’ he proposes to give on his ‘intended retirement from management’, after the first performance of the new season.

[Charles Lamb Kenney, author and playwright.] Autograph Letter Signed to his wife, with reference to the 1862 Great Exhibition, and dinner with William Makepeace Thackeray and his daughters.

[ Charles Kenney and Charles Kean. ] Autograph Letter Signed ('<Eleyn?> Zahn') by a half-sister of Kenney, requesting a private box for her sister and herself.

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