19 century actor.- Cooper (John, actor, 1793-1870) To the Public, lithographed facsimile of a manuscript of a public notice, 2pp., folds, edges creased, browned, folio, Theatre Royal, May 1817; and 3 others, comprising: another lithographed notice announcing the re-opening of the theatre after the death of Princess Charlotte (daughter of George IV), [1817], and 2 ALs.s from John Cooper, n.d., folds, browned, v.s., v.d. (4).
⁂ First mentioned: "A Publication from the pen of Mr. Browne complaining of inveterate malice on the part of myself, and others, having induced a small portion of the audience last night to offer me personal insult, on my appearing on the Stage, I am compelled to take this notice of it. He complains that he has been vilely slandered, when his crime was 'only a Breach of Promise'... . On his joining the Manchester company, he was accused of being in the closest habits of intimacy with a person whose character is detestably infamous... ."
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