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Cupid 286
Cushman min le 243
Lady macbeth 193
Romeo 208
meg me[?] 266
" " " 243
Susan Juliet 208
Davenport E.L. - 198
William - 201
Renedick 201
Othello - 211
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St. March - 229
Hamlet 231
Renedick 233
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Brutus 272
Autograph 229
Davidge W. Pistol - 210
Gipsy Jack 239
D Anari mad - - 289
De wilhorst mad Cora 252
Dean Julia Beatrice 268
Juliet 297
Delia Mad Duchess Lo[?]p[?]
Diggs - Sin Jno Brute 105
Dow[?] - Oedbim 217
[?]alstaff 217
Drayton Mr + Mrs Henri 300
Dryott - Senetts 250
Elliston Ranger 199
Fa[?] W Lovegold 217
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Renew 226
Min. Q. Katherine 283
Fawcett Quoten 276
Mrs Helen McGregor 242
Fitzivillian - Mr - Mrs Page 196
Mr O Daisy 204
O Callaghan 203
Fleming - Edgan 219
Foote - [?]
min - 195
Frazer - Thaddeus - 249
Gannon Mare - 263
Gibbs Mrs - 234
Gilliland Thos 218
Gly[?] Min - Lady Macbeth 208
Queen Katherine 209
Derdemona 282
Constance 283
Cleopatra 297
Isabella 298
Goddard " Mis Arabella 267
Hall H, 1st Gravedigger 216
Harland Min - Oberon 305
Herin Mis Agnes - 281
Tammy 281
Hile Geo H - 200
Home R H 272
Hoskins Mercutio 226
Lucio 298
Hubbard Mr - 206
Hudson - R[?]Omore 302
Infant sisters - 242
James Mis Frazer - - 285
Jefferson Joe - ass Trenchard 276
Jamieson Geo - Brutus 237
Kean Mrs. C - Viola - 253
Keene Laura - Portia 264
" " - 262
Keeley. Sig Sylla - 279
Kemble Chas - [?] - 202
Kilmiste Mines - 242
Knight - 250
Lee Miss Maryann - 206
Liston D[?] [?] 235
Gawkly 235
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Logan Min Eliza Corbelia 256
" Olive 251
Le Kain - 266
Macread, W. C. - Macbeth 209
Jago 220
Wolsey 225
Brutus 226
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Hamlet 231
Thylock 234
King Lear 239
Othello 241
Caricature 248
King John 259
Henry IV 262
Thylock 267
Ceanius 272
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Mc Donoup John E. - 287
Macklin Miss - Irene 308
Marshall Wyzenman 293
Marstin H . Mercutio 304
Mowatt Anna C. 251
Mrs Beatrice - 252
Rosalind 273
Munay Demetrius 308
miss - 308
Mc Alpine Miss - [?] 197
Maddox Miss - 286
Marston Miss Jenny - Perdta 197
H. Hotspur 274
Brutus 274
Mrs [?] Aud[?]y
Mead [?]. Jachino - 196
Owens J. E. Gobbo 216
Patti Strakosch "Amalia 288
Carlotta - 289
Pastor - Frank 309
Peters - Binney 276
Pitt. Chlibdir Glo[?]ter 282
Potter mad Leonpold ise 224
Pivey Miss Lucy Bertram 250
Quick _ Sable 212
Raymond J. T. 295
Reeves Sims - 291
Reynolds Miss 238
Rice Dan 300
Mis - 301
Richings Min Caroline 290
Roberts J B. - 218
Sir Giles 278
Glucenter 278
Robinson F. Florizce 197
Prince Henry 274
- Sam Magee 294
Rogers Benj [?] - C Toole 301
Rolla Teresa - 309
Rumel [?] Hoeyp / Miss - 263
Sheridan R. B 231
Sapio [?] Dey - 224
Silbbee Ploupburs 221
Sinclair - Orlando 255
Smith - Mark - 233
O- Grampus 302
Mark Morna 236
Sontag Madle - 385
Shakosch - 288
Stuart - the Ghost 230
Taylor Miss Emma 207
- Mary Anne Page 265
Selbir Rose - - 265
Tree Ellen - Rose Redland 257
"miss m -- - 253
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Theatre, circuses, and opera Houses
Arch St Theatre Philad 245
Hippodrone 294
Coates H Philad 310
Vaudry - 22d - Gravedigger 216
Verricke mons 251
Vincent Mariamne - 231
Vieux temps miss 251
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Wallack J. lo _ Mercutio 197
J J Ma[?] Walter 288
Gloster 261
Shylock 266
Waylett mis - madge 223
Countess Guise 237
Weymiss Miss C - 277
Williams Barney Ragged Pat 279
" " 279
" " 307
Wilson miss mandase 198
- - - 249
Winstanley Mis. Mrs Quickly 305
Wilson - Sir T Wring Lead 215
Webster B R Darville 262
Western miss Lucille 259
Wheatley Wm - Romeo 210
Wood Wm B 205
" 274
mr + mis John Andy 255
Woodward - Robadil 213
" 214
Buck 213
Locio 244
Yates Mis Nedea 194
Calista 228
Grace Huntley 261
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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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There Master Charles I think I have conden[?]ed think not bealowing all my tediousness on you - far[?] it up to [?] your ours purpose or let it speak for itself as it stands [?]
he returned bringing with him Mr + Mrs Sloman, Mrs Austin Miss George, Southwell Mercer Rowbothanig [?] Sam Chapmans Miss Emery [?] and last although by no means least John Thompson Norton one of the best Trumpet players in the world. Mr [?] name connected as it is with the American stage for nearly forty years will be remembered (long after the generation before whom he asked have passed away) with kind feeling for his industrious efforts, to assist, in forming [?] American Dramatic Fund Association, which have been crowned with such signal success - to those of our readers who wish to know more of him and his career we recommend the perusal of his own entertaining book of 26 years of the Life of am Actor & Manager