One Man in His Time: The Adventures of H. Watkins, Strolling Player, 1845-1863, from His JournalThis book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas. |
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... Philadelphia a whole house was given to us by Mrs. James Elverson ( Nellie Mayo ) as our workshop . We were only a handful , so we stretched the requirements of eligi- bility rather thin in order that the long tables might be filled ...
... Philadelphia a whole house was given to us by Mrs. James Elverson ( Nellie Mayo ) as our workshop . We were only a handful , so we stretched the requirements of eligi- bility rather thin in order that the long tables might be filled ...
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... Philadelphia . The conductor charged me most shamefully for extra baggage . The railroad not being completed all the way we were carried twenty - four miles by stages . The journey proved to be a matter of two days as there was a ...
... Philadelphia . The conductor charged me most shamefully for extra baggage . The railroad not being completed all the way we were carried twenty - four miles by stages . The journey proved to be a matter of two days as there was a ...
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... Philadelphia with Harriet and Bub . Harriet being enciente , I was desirous that she should remain in New York where she would have the assistance of both my Mother and her own , but she pleaded so strongly that I could not deny her ...
... Philadelphia with Harriet and Bub . Harriet being enciente , I was desirous that she should remain in New York where she would have the assistance of both my Mother and her own , but she pleaded so strongly that I could not deny her ...
Contents
BARNSTORMING IN THE FORTIES | 1 |
THE WARTIME THEATRE | 19 |
THREE SOUTHWESTERN PLAYHOUSES | 28 |
Copyright | |
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