MADGE KENDAL - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 07/20/1900 - HFSID 206367
Price: $320.00
MADGE KENDAL
Brief letter, right to the point: "I can go nowhere under fee of
£35 guineas."
Autograph Letter signed: "Madge Kendal", 1 page, 4½x7. The
Lodge, Filey, Yorks, no date. To"Dear Sir", in full: "I can
go nowhere under fee of £35 guineas. In haste". Madge Kendal
(1848-1935) born in Great Gimsby, England, married actor William (Grimston)
Kendal (1843-1917), who took her name, in 1869, and the couple starred in
stage performances from Shakespeare to the "fairy comedies" of W. S. Gilbert,
touring the US for the first time in 1889. The Kendal's, who helped restore
respectability to the London theatre after a period of disrepute, retired in
1908. Outliving her husband by nearly two decades, she became a Dame Grand
Cross of the British Empire in 1927. Corners lightly worn and creased. Light
surface creases. Lightly soiled. Ink transfer on bottom margin. Normal mailing
fold. Left edge slightly frayed and worn. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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