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Image 7 of The Jeffersons, American actor g ettes EDITED BY LAURENCE HUTTON

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Image 8 of The Jeffersons, A name Noble and brave as aught of consular On Roman marbles. 1 Byron.

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Image 11 of The Jeffersons, AMERICAN ACTOR SERIES THE JEFFERSONS BY WILLIAM WINTER TOty Illustration* tllLl% BOSTON JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY 1881

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Image 13 of The Jeffersons, CJjis fftemortal of tfje 3effersons IS DEDICATED BY ITS AUTHOR TO THEIR FAMOUS KINSMAN WILLIAM WARREN, ACTOR, SCHOLAR, AND COMRADE, WHOSE QUAINT AND TENDER GENIUS IN DRAMATIC ART HAS GIVEN HAPPINESS TO...

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Image 15 of The Jeffersons, PREFACE. The Gar rick period in the history of the British stage which is the period of Jefferson the First, has been so fully described by many writers that the present biographer...

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Image 16 of The Jeffersons, Vlll THE JEFFERSONS. to the personation of Rip Van Winkle by Jefferson the Fourth but this allotment seems warranted by the great importance and phenomenal career of a work which for nearly...

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Image 17 of The Jeffersons, PREFACE. ix Jefferson family and by the useful suggestions of friendly cor- respondents, among whom should particularly be mentioned Mr. John T. Ford, of Baltimore, Mr. L. Clarke Davis, of Phila- delphia,...

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Image 18 of The Jeffersons, X THE JEFFERSONS. along its direct, hereditary line, without deviation, through a period of about one hundred and fifty years. The representa- tives of the family, in lineal descent, are as follows...

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Image 19 of The Jeffersons, CONTENTS. Page Jefferson the First i Jefferson the Second 49 Elizabeth Jefferson 127 Jefferson the Third 137 Charles Burke 151 Jefferson the Fourth 164 Conclusion 219 Index 227

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Image 21 of The Jeffersons, LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Jefferson the First Frontispiece Old Plymouth Theatre 26 Jefferson the Second and Blissett 52 Jefferson the Third and Wife 94 Mrs. Burke -Jefferson 122 C. Burke and Jefferson Fourth...

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Image 23 of The Jeffersons, JEFFERSON THE FIRST. 1728 ?-i8o7. First, noble friend, Let me embrace thine age whose honor cannot Be measured or confinedP Shakespeare.

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Image 25 of The Jeffersons, JEFFERSON THE FIRST. The founder of the Jefferson Family of Actors was Thomas Jefferson, the son of an English farmer, and he was born at, or near Ripon, Yorkshire, England, about the...

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Image 26 of The Jeffersons, 4 THE JEFFERSONS. visit one of the aged actor s sons, Lieut. Frank Jeffer- son, at one time commander of the royal yacht in Vir- ginia Water, at Windsor and from him...

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Image 27 of The Jeffersons, JEFFERSON THE FIRST. 5 thriving father could mount him on a thoroughbred steed, for this loyal and patriotic journey was cho- sen by fate to be its bearer. He undertook this task,...

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Image 28 of The Jeffersons, 6 THE JEFFERSONS. He could, it seemed, be entirely at his ease. He sang his songs he told his stories he hit off his little series of eccentric Yorkshire characters, and he...

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Image 29 of The Jeffersons, JEFFERSON THE FIRST. 7 new comer, promptly bestowed upon him an engage- ment at Drury Lane, together with his personal friend- ship, and that Jefferson subsequently for a term of years shared...

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Image 30 of The Jeffersons, 8 THE JEFFERSONS. sought that great actor and warm personal friend to say good-bye, as he was setting forth to the rural scene of new labors, Garrick, who had just ended a...

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Image 31 of The Jeffersons, JEFFERSON THE FIRST. 9 that consumed the St. Charles Theatre, New Orleans, in 1842. There is still another version of Thomas Jefferson s choice of a theatrical career, and the details of...

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Image 32 of The Jeffersons, IO THE JEFFERSONS. Fraser, born in 1667, one of the three Scottish lords, adherents of Charles Edward the Pietender, who were beheaded on Tower Hill in 1 747. The others were Kil-...

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Image 33 of The Jeffersons, JEFFERSON THE FIRST. II man s Fields Theatre, when he was twenty-five years old, on Oct. 19th, 1 741, and he afterwards went over to Dublin and then he was engaged by...

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Image 34 of The Jeffersons, 12 THE JEFFERSONS. overwhelming ascendancy which Garrick then main- tained. A period of about twelve years of itinerant acting and perhaps of desultory theatrical management is accord- ingly to be imagined. In...

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Image 35 of The Jeffersons, JEFFERSON THE FIRST. 13 stances had assumed a settled character, such as natu- rally restricted him to the safer fields of unadventurous industry. The rank of Thomas Jefferson among the actors of...

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Image 36 of The Jeffersons, 14 THE JEFFERSONS. cal area, and the vastly increased demand and remu- neration for theatrical entertainments, would now be stars. Jefferson s repute, if not surpassingly brilliant, like that of Garrick, was,...

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Image 37 of The Jeffersons, JEFFERSON THE FIRST. 15 or the Innocent Adultery. Tragedy. By Thomas Southerne. 1694. Altered by Garrick, and called Isabella, or the Fatal Marriage. Drury Lane-. Lyon, in The Reprisal, or The Tars...

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Image 38 of The Jeffersons, 1 6 THE JEFFERSONS. Careless, in The Committee, or the Faithful Irishman. Comedy. By Sir Robert Howard. 1665. Osivald, in King Arthur. Jarvis, in The Gamester. Comedy. By Susanna Centli- vre. Lincoln...

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Image 39 of The Jeffersons, JEFFERSON THE FIRST. \J friends he is stated to have been (Victor s Secret History of the Green Room Frances Barton Abington, the brilliant actress, thus asso- ciated with the memory of...

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Image 40 of The Jeffersons, 1 8 THE JEFFERSONS. her any opinion of her successors. Mrs. Siddons, however, she praised, though not with the warmth of a genuine admirer. She said Early in life Mrs. Siddons was...

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