Sargent, Mr.. Autograph note by Mr. Sargent responding to Charles Lamb Kenney's Poets and profits

Folger bibliographic ID: 220535
Folger call number: Y.d.391
Folger holdings ID: 249894

Note concerns a "curious item" in Charles Lamb Kenney's Poets and profits that indicates that the engagement of Dion Boucicault surpassed in attraction any since Edmund Kean; Boucicault had been paid over £9800 or about $56,000 for his share of severty nightly receipts. On verso, a note signed "A.W." identifies the writer as a Mr. Sargent, who had requested that the note be published. Also, a much later note in the hand of William Winter indicates that the Boucicault production in question was The Shaughraun

General notes

Note added by W. Winter

Extended title: Autograph note by Mr. Sargent responding to Charles Lamb Kenney's Poets and profits ca. 1875

Kenney, Charles Lamb, 1821-1881. Poets and profits at Drury Lane Theatre Boucicault, Dion, 1820-1890. Shaughraun Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833

author: Sargent, Mr., active approximately 1875
subject: Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833
annotator: Winter, William, 1836-1917