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Richard Penn Smith Papers, 1820-1868.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 688
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Richard Penn, 1799-1854
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theater--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--19th century.
- Theater.
- Actors--United States.
- Actors.
- United States.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Genre:
- Portraits.
- Scrapbooks.
- Tragedies.
- Plays (document genre)
- Scripts (documents)
- Manuscripts, American.
- Penn Provenance:
- Correspondence sold by Mrs. Joseph Carson; manuscript sold by Seven Gables Bookshop (New York), 1956.
- Physical Description:
- 48 folders + 1 volume (200 leaves)
- Place of Publication:
- 1820-1868.
- Biography/History:
- Philadelphia-born lawyer, writer, dramatist, editor, and publisher. Grandson of William Smith, the first provost of the University of Pennsylvania.
- Summary:
- The collection consists primarily of correspondence addressed to Richard Penn Smith but also includes an Edwin Forrest scrapbook created by his son Horace, some financial information, portraits and an unpublished manuscript of Caius Marius: a tragedy, written in 1830. The bulk of correspondence is in response to a dinner honoring Edwin Forrest held in December, 1837.
- Contains:
- Caius Marius: a tragedy.
- OCLC:
- 232576952
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