Scope and arrangement
Two quarto scrapbooks put together by an unidentifed compiler, containing a large collection of newspaper clippings, playbills (printed originals and manuscript tracings), and various theatrical notices relating to the career of Sarah Siddons. Includes manuscript accounts, checks, and statements of payment to her; and letters, most by her husband, William Siddons, some by her son, Henry Siddons, a few by Sarah Siddons herself. Bound in drab wrappers, paper-covered cloth spines with manuscript spine titling. Formerly owned by Alfred Morrison, with his monogram bookplate in each volume.
This finding aid provides item-level descriptions for only the manuscript material contained within the scrapbooks, all of which is in volume II.
The Scrapbooks on Sarah Siddons are arranged in six series:
Arrangement
This finding aid considers the manuscripts in volume II of the Scrapbooks on Sarah Siddons in chronological order, which is not the order in which they are mounted within the volume. Each item's physical placement within the volume corresponds to its call number: (MISC 3203a-z); (MISC 3204a-z); and (MISC 3205a-e).