1 page, 3 Torrington Square, Wednesday 23 June, 1852.
Kean writes to an unknown recipient to organise a meeting with them “here at eleven o’clock on Saturday morning next”. Charles Kean, famed 19th century actor and one-half of the popular acting couple Mr and Mrs Kean (his wife Ellen, nee Tree) was enjoying a period of particular success and favour at the time this letter was written. In 1848 he became director of royal theatricals at Windsor, and from 1850 he co-managed the Princess’s Theatre on Oxford Street with Robert Keeley. In 1852 he began managing that theatre alone, his first solo production was that of King John in February of that year (his first great historical production - the first of many!) The play being shown at the Princess’s Theatre at the time of this letter was The Vampire by Dion Boucicault (later titled The Phantom), which premiered on 14 June 1852.
