MADGE KENDAL - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 7/3 - HFSID 206371
Price: $360.00
MADGE KENDAL
The actress is willing to extend her tour, so long as the engagements
are "not too far & with pleasant people".
Autograph Letter signed: "Madge Kendal", 3pages
(integral leaf), 4x6. 12 Portland Place [London]"July 3", no year.
To "Dear Sir", in full: "I will go to November 6th & 7th if
you can also get an engagement for the 8th & 9th in route, but not
too far away! Then the 10th for Bradford. Dec. 20 & 21st for [illegible
place name] & also some engagements coming or going - only not too far
& with pleasant people. Yours 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. Normal mailing folds. Toned. Otherwise,
fine condition.
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