MADGE KENDAL - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED - HFSID 206359
Price: $380.00
MADGE KENDAL
Bargaining about terms for an engagement: ..."Already Mr. Kendal thinks
fee too small."
Autograph Letter signed: "Madge Kendal", 3 pages (integral
leaf), 4½x7. Portland Place [London],Thursday, no date. To
"Mr. Christy [?]", in full: "[illegible first
sentence] Hotel & fees £7.70 per night. I think it would pay - if you can
assure that the Institute prefers days - Nothing less worth taking the trouble.
I certainly don't care for the glee Party I had often last winter. I
shall not go anywhere on sharing terms. Already Mr. Kendal thinks fee too
small. I cannot travel with an agent & trust no one who does - is my
experience! In haste. Yrs faithfully". 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. Multiple folds. Corners lightly worn and creased. Soiled.
Slightly toned. Light surface creases. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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