Charles Dickens, Edmund kean, Albert Smith, Mark Lemon and Tennyson, so very sparing of their autographs, have left their signatures on the wall.
"Around The Tea-Table"
T. De Witt Talmage
Let it suffice to say, that, by universal consent, I was preferred to kean; and the only fault the most critical observer could find to the representative of Desdemona, was a rather unlady-like fondness for snuff.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
I was earnestly entreated to come, without waiting for the end of my leave-that several of my old "parts were kept open for me;" and that, in fact, the "boys of Kilkenny" were on tip-toe in expectation of my arrival, as though his Majesty's mail were to convey a kean or a Kemble.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
