Mr. E. Davenport - from a daguerreotype by Mayall, 1854. Portrait of American actor Edward Loomis Davenport. '...in December, 1849, he appeared in conjunction with [Anna Cora Mowatt] at the Theatre Royal, Manchester, in the "Lady of ; The press awarded him unqualified praise, as the best American actor who had visited England. His nightly triumphs beside the eminent Macready; his great successes when placed in the scale with G. Y. Brooke; and his marked excellence when standing alone, all give sanction to this one opinion; and he now returns to his native land, bearing with him
Mr. E. Davenport - from a daguerreotype by Mayall, 1854. Portrait of American actor Edward Loomis Davenport. '...in December, 1849, he appeared in conjunction with [Anna Cora Mowatt] at the Theatre Royal, Manchester, in the "Lady of ; The press awarded him unqualified praise, as the best American actor who had visited England. His nightly triumphs beside the eminent Macready; his great successes when placed in the scale with G. Y. Brooke; and his marked excellence when standing alone, all give sanction to this one opinion; and he now returns to his native land, bearing with him the best wishes of troops of '. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.
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