| Ref No | CALB/BIO/F205483 |
| AltRefNo | F205483 |
| Collection | Calthrop Boucicault Collection |
| Title | Material relating to the Agnes Kelly Robertson Boucicault, in particular her birth, her marriage to Dion Boucicault and their divorce, her theatrical career, and her death |
| Date | 1833-1916 |
| Extent | 17 items |
| Description | Material relating to the Agnes Kelly Robertson Boucicault, in particular her birth, her marriage to Dion Boucicault and their divorce, her theatrical career, and her death. Item 1 -- 1 letter in response to a request for information about Agnes Robertson's date of birth, to be ascertained at the Scottish Record Office; apparently no information was found;. Item 2 -- 1 letter from the Edinburgh City Librarian responding to enquiries about early Aberdeen playbills or newspapers, Agnes Robertson's grandfather and father, and her birth record, all with negative result;. Item 3 -- 1 negative reply to an enquiry from the General Register Office of Scotland, presumable about Agnes Robertson's birth;. Item 4 -- a sheet of notes listing the address of the Scots Ancestry Research Society, to be used to find information about Agnes Robertson's birth;. Item 5 -- a photocopy of an article from the Glasgow Herald, 26 April 1850, mentioning Agnes Robertson in connection with the Prince's Theatre, Glasgow;. Item 6 -- a letter from the Glasgow City Librarian informing Calthrop that the Mitchell Library's playbill collection includes to playbills connected with Agnes Robertson; he also provides references to Agnes Robertson in Walter Baynham's book The Glasgow Stage and in the Glasgow Herald (see . Item 5).. Item 7 -- 1 letter from a correspondent at the Liverpool Record Office informing Calthrop of their playbill and newspaper holdings, apparently in response to an enquiry for information about a performance by Agnes Robertson's in 1849;. Item 8 -- 1 letter from a Canadian correspondent in response to an enquiry about Agnes Robertson in Canada in 1853;. Item 9 -- 2 pages of jottings by Calthrop containing references to some of the investigative threads mentioned above and to two articles in the Illustrated London News, possibly in relation to the question if Agnes Robertson acted in Boucicault's Giralda in 1850;. Item 10 -- transcript of the Decree Nisi dissolving, on 21st June 1888, the marriage between Dion and Agnes Boucicault on the grounds that Boucicault "had been guilty of bigamy with adultery";. Item 11 -- 1 original cutting and 1 photostat reproduction of an article from The Sketch, May 16, 1894, about Agnes Boucicault, including a contemporary photograph;. Item 12 -- 1 print of an engraving captioned "West Side of Langham Place", by Thomas H. Shepherd and S. Owen, published September 1828; a "delightful house, overlooking Langham place" is mentioned as having been the Boucicaults' residence in the 1860s and 70s in the article in The Sketch (. Item 11);. Item 13 -- handwritten transcript? in two an unknown hands, apparently of a form Agnes Boucicault filled in after Boucicault's death, with information about her family;. Item 14 -- 2 newpaper cuttings of obituaries of Agnes Boucicault; the dates and names of the papers are not provided, but neither is from The Times; Agnes died on 6th November 1916;. Item 15 -- 1 letter from the Librarian of the Scotsman newspaper, reporting no success checking the Scotsman archive for an advertisement of Agnes Robertson's birth;. Item 16 -- a chronology, compiled by Christopher Calthrop, of the divorce proceedings between Dion and Agned Boucicault, 1886 to 1889, including some details of alimony payments;. Item 17 -- 1 letter from Agnes Boucicault to Elsa, the wife of her grandson Ian Calthrop, sending greetings and enquiring after her family; the letter is dated April 17th, 1914. |
| The letters are from the following correspondents -- Norma Armstrong, of an unknown Edinburgh insitution; Anthony P. Shearman, City Librarian, Edinburgh; Miss A. Lowell, General Register Office for Scotland; C. W. Black, Glasgow City Librarian; Denis Salter, Canada; Melville Cunningham, Librarian of the Scotsman newspaper, Edinburgh; Agnes Boucicault. |
| Notes | Previous reference number: UKC/CALB/BIO/F205483 |
| Subject | Birth |
| Marriage |
| Death |
| Decree Nisi |
| Divorce |
| Event | Giralda; Or, The Invisible Husband |
| Related Person | Boucicault, Agnes, Mrs., 1833-1916 (born Agnes Kelly Robertson, wife of Dion Boucicault) |
| Boucicault, Dion, (Dionysius Lardner), Mr., 1820-1890 |
| Muir, Thomas Dunsmore, Rev. Mr. (Agnes Robertson's grandfather) |
| Robertson, Thomas, Mr. (Agnes Robertson's father) |
| Glover, Mr. |
| Butt, Charles Parker, Sir (divorce judge) |
| Kean, Charles, Mr. |
| Shepherd, Thomas H., Mr., artist |
| Owen, S., Mr., engraver |
| Calthrop, Elsa, Mrs. (wife of Ian Calthrop) |
| Calthrop, Ian, Mr. |
| Calthrop (?), Cynthia, Miss |
| Shaftsbury, Lord |
| Related Organisation | Scottish Record Office |
| Library Services, Department of Recreation, City of Edinburgh District Council |
| General Register Office for Scotland |
| Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow |
| Liverpool Record Office |
| Liverpool City Libraries |
| High Court of Justice, Probate and Divorce |
| The Scotsman Publications Limited, Edinburgh |
| Category | Correspondence |
| Press cuttings |
| Notes |
| Access conditions | This material is available for consultation at the University of Kent's Special Collections & Archives reading room, Templeman Library, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NU (specialcollections@kent.ac.uk). |
| Copyright | Material within the archive may remain within copyright under the terms of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Special Collections & Archives staff will assist where possible in helping trace copyright holders, but it is ultimately the responsibility of users to obtain the permission of the copyright holder for reproduction of copyright material for uses other than research or private study. |
| Level | SubSeries |