[Michel Kovatchévitch [Kovatchevitch], Paris-based Slav actor and author.] Typed Letter Signed, in French [to English theatre historian W. Macqueen-Pope], requesting information for his book on the Anglo-American black actor Frederick Aldridge.

From the Macqueen-Pope papers. (See his entry in the Oxford DNB.) 2pp, 4to. Signed ‘Michel Kovatchévitch’. On aged and worn paper. Folded twice for postage, with closed tears at edges of vertical fold, and nicks and creasing along one edge. He is working on a biography of Frederick Aldridge, ‘tragédien noir de langue anglaise (1807-1867)’, and asks for help in establishing the date of his debut, ‘dans le rôle d’Othello, au Royalty Theatre’. He gives a long extract from an English work, before stating that he has consulted a number of English newspapers of the period, ‘sans trouver trace de cette représentation d’Othello par Mr. Keene, nom que portait le tragédien noir à cette époque’. He gives some of the information he possesses, including details of Garrick portraits of Aldridge. He ends with a final question: when did Sunday performances start in the English?