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Title: An actor's notebooks, being some memories, friendships, criticisms and experiences of Frank Archer
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Archer, Frank
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Publisher: London : S. Paul & co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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and the Marchioness, The Brasses, Tom Pinch and Ruth, Nell and her Grandfather at the Races, Captain Cuttle and Florence Dombey, and the beautiful series for The Christmas Carol which he did for Messrs. Pears &Co., are a few that suggest themselves. His work in black and white was of course widely known, but his Dickens work in water-colour, which was not so accessible, seemed to me full of charm. His Here they come!—on the Derby Course, was, I think, very clever and powerful. It was exhibited at the Paris Exhibition, and received honourable mention. In 1878 he was elected an honorary member of the Imperial Royal Academy of Vienna. Charles Green came of an interesting stock. His mother was a sister of Jane Reynolds, who married Thomas Hood the poet. Their brother was John Hamilton Reynolds, a poet also, and a close friend of Keats, who addressed a sonnet to him. Sir Sidney Colvin speaks of him as one of the wisest as well as one of the warmest of the poets friends. The younger sister, Charlotte
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From a private photograph. p. 192) CHARLES GREEN, R.I. In Fancy Dress. Charlotte Reynolds and Keats 193 Reynolds, is alluded to in Hoods comic verses,* Number One. And here I've got my single lot On hand at Number One was a punning allusion to her—Lottie being a familiar name. We were privileged to make a friend of her, in her old age, as she lived, as I have said, with her nephews. The Reynolds family knew Keats intimately, and her reminiscences of the poet were often of great interest. She also came into contact with, or knew well Charles Lamb, Leigh Hunt, and Dickens. She was a very genial and delightful old lady, and I regret that I have so little of interest that I can recall connected with her youthful days. I know that sh etold us she well remembered when she was a girl being taken by her mother to see Mrs. Siddons, who then lived in Upper Baker Street. She remembered that the great actress addressed her in a kindly but some-what stately way, as was becoming in one not of the common clay, but

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