MADGE KENDAL - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED - HFSID 206358
Price: $360.00
MADGE KENDAL
Preferring spontaneity in choosing her readings: "I give what I feel
at the moment!"
Autograph Letter signed: "Madge Kendal", 2 pages (integral
leaf), 7¾x6. Portland Place [London],Wednesday, no date.. To
"Mr. Christy [?]", in full: "'As You Like It' lasts near
an hour with the music & I can give 2 or 3 other things - but I give what I
feel at the moment! As sad things are often better. [illegible sentence]
These read once or twice, at the Philosophical at Halle. Yrs 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.
soiled. Light surface creases. Corners slightly worn and creased. Otherwise,
fine condition.
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