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"Last night's Benefit at the Park Theatre"
Letter in a secretarial hand.
4to. 2 pp.
Letter of thanks to Philip Hone, the former mayor of New York and "man of great prominence in New York society", to the publisher George Pope Morris, and to Thomas Barry, written during her triumphal tour of America in 1840-42 which made her the first female European artist to tour North America and Cuba: "I have been informed that you have very kindly consented to take charge of the various sums collected in behalf of the theatrical fund of New York. The ready zeal and generous indifference you display to the trouble and responsibility of such a charge entitles you not alone to the grateful thanks of the recipients of this bounty but to the respect of all friends of philanthropy. Permit me to make my humble contribution, the net proceeds of last night's Benefit at the Park Theatre, to this worthy object, with the expression of my ardent hope that this Institution will grow and prosper like a goodly tree, and that hungry thousands may partake the fruits thereof [...]."
