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Friend Westcott don't lose
This - as it is the [?] relic. I have [?]
Barneys.
Dear Durang
[?] friend Tom Westcott informs me
you have commenced your history of the Theatre from
1821, may it prone profitable to your I repeat my former
[?] to use any [?] of Twenty six years of
an Actor of Manager that be of the smallest service
to aid you and according to [?] give you
a slight sketch of my unworthy self when you arrive
at the [?] of that [?] - Very truly Yours
[?] [?] [?]
[?] [?]
New York 15 Crosby St July 22. 1856
M. Frances Courtney [?]
in London 1797. at the early age of seventeen he
commenced his career as an actor in [?] Scotland
as Young [?] in Douglas after several years of active
[?] in his [?] in the proven[?] towns and [?] her
of England of Scotland he made his first appearance
before a Loudorss audience on the 2nd of [?] 1821 as Sponge
in There Sha[?] J Dine - at the Adelphi Theatre - in 1822 he
accepted an engagement from [?] Moore to visit
the [?] [?] and made his first appearance
At the New Chestnut Street Theatre as [?] in the Dram[?]
on the 12th of December, he was from that time a
member of the Chestnut Street Company for the [?] of
ten years - during the vacation of 1824 he made his first
appearance in New York, at the Old Chatham Theatre
under the management of Banere as [?] in
the Busy B[?] with complete sucess at this time, as
a Dashing Light Comedian he had few equals and
no supervisor. [?] M H.B. Hood of Philadelphia M George Barrett
of Boston and Mr Hen[?] were acknowledged to be the
three leading light comedians of the Americans Stage
In 1827 he was approached asking our stage manager of
the Chestnut Street Theatre and crossed the Atlantic
in search of additons, to Mr Flanene Company
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