Box 1
Container
Contains 1 Collection or Record:
Reath, Theodore W. Letter to Mrs. Kenneth Day regarding S.W. Mitchell, 1946
File — Box: 1, Folder: 27
Identifier: Series I
REATH, Thomas W. CARBON TYPESCRIPT LETTER, SIGNED IN TYPE. [Philadelphia, circa 1946]. Three page letter on rectos of three leaves, with each leaf measuring 11 x 8.5”, in original mailing envelope addressed to Mrs. Kenneth Day (S. Weir Mitchell’s granddaughter), dated 1946. Reath relates a story told to him by Silas Weir Mitchell in Bermuda, in 1912. Mitchell reputedly described an encounter between his father, John Kearsley Mitchell, and the great actor, Junius Booth, in which the...
Dates:
1946
