Phrenologist Put Their Heads Together: "We expect Mrs. H Siddons"
Autograph Note signed ("Andw Combe") to NAHUM CAPEN, at the Waterloo Hotel.
n.p. [London]: n.d. [c.1880].
Price: $200.00
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One page, 7 lines. 1 vols. 12mo. Phrenologist Put Their Heads Together: "We expect Mrs. H Siddons" Fine.
Item #223901
Nahum Capen, the American apostle of phrenology, while visiting in London, receives this invitation from Andrew Combe, brother of George Combe, the English apostle:
"I called to request your company on friday evening at seven o'clock, if not better engaged. We expect Mrs. H. Siddons."
Mrs. Henry Siddons, with her brother William Henry Murray, were the Scottish Directors of the Theatre Royal of Edinburgh. Fanny Kemble mentions the three in her Memoir (L., 1879): "Mrs. Harry Siddons's intimate friends and associates were the remarkable brothers, George and Andrew Combe; the former a lawyer by profession, but known to the literary and scientific world of Europe and America as the Apostle of Phrenology, and the author of a work entitled 'The Constitution of Man.'"
