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Relaxations.
- Title
- Relaxations.
- Author
- Walbrook, H. M. (Henry Mackinnon), 1865-1941.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Mixed material | Request in advance | MssCol 3199 | Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 |
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- Description
- .21 linear foot (1 volume)
- Summary
- Undated reminiscences of English playwright, drama critic, and author Henry Mackinnon Walbrook, describing the English stage and social customs during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including sketches of drama critics Clement Scott and Mowbray Morris; the actor Sir Henry Irving; performances by Adelaide Ristori, Sara Bernhardt, the Kendals, Edward Terry, Nellie Farren, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, J. Forbes-Robertson, and others. Walbrook recollects his friendship with Arthur Stanley Cooke, poet and author of Sussex Down; a trip to Ireland; essays on the Ruskin-Turner friendship and Ruskin's correspondence with Mrs. Sophia Caroline Booth, Turner's housekeeper; and on the history of tennis. Typescript (carbon).
- Subjects
- Theater critics > Memoirs
- Ireland > Description and travel
- Sketches
- Turner, J. M. W (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851
- Craig, Edward Gordon, 1872-1966
- Theater > England > 19th century
- Irving, Henry, Sir, 1838-1905
- Booth, Sophia Caroline
- Theater > Great Britain > History
- Ristori, Adelaide, 1822-1906
- Great Britain > Social life and customs > 20th century
- Morris, Mowbray
- Actors > Great Britain
- Forbes-Robertson, Johnston, Sir, 1853-1937
- Memoirs
- Theater > England > 20th century
- Tennis > History
- Kendal, William Hunter, 1843-1917
- Scott, Clement, 1841-1904
- Farren, Nellie, 1848-1904
- Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
- Cooke, Arthur Stanley
- Kendal, Madge, 1849-1935
- Great Britain > Social life and customs > 19th century
- Campbell, Patrick, Mrs., 1865-1940
- Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923
- Genre/Form
- Memoirs.
- Sketches.
- Access (note)
- Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.
- Call Number
- MssCol 3199
- OCLC
- 768427144
- Author
- Walbrook, H. M. (Henry Mackinnon), 1865-1941.
- Title
- Relaxations.
- Restricted Access
- Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.
- Research Call Number
- MssCol 3199