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Fanny Kemble: Lenox Library
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For more than four decades, Kemble resided for part of the year in Lenox, Mass., and she soon became known as the town eccentric. Gable and Judd are both natives of Lenox, and both were raised on tales of the infamous former resident's exploits and generosity. The Lenox Library, a gift from Fanny Kemble to the town, was the source of the many documents and journals Gable used in writing the play.
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Some of Kemble's working papers appear to have been sold by his descendants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but the great bulk of the material was sold by his grand-daughter in 1934. One batch, acquired by a London dealer called Michelmore, was promptly offered to Trinity College, Cambridge; but the Council of Trinity College turned the offer down. Michelmore soon afterwards acquired another batch of papers, and merged them into a single collection. He did not... find a buyer for the archive as a whole; so the papers were sold off separately, and are now widely dispersed. The papers include Kemble's undergraduate notebooks (now in the Law Library of the Library of Congress, Washington DC), materials for a projected seventh volume of the Codex Diplomaticus (now in the Beinecke Library, Yale University), and the autograph manuscript of Kemble's archaeological work in the 1850s (now in the Library of the Society of Antiquaries, London).
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Fanny and Catharine became fast friends, and before long, Fanny was a regular at the Curtis Hotel in Lenox,and eventually she built “The Perch”, an estate that was on the street now named for her. An attractive boulder now marks the spot, across from Canyon Ranch. Struck by the view from the town graveyard, Fanny Kemble is said to have remarked, “Not only is Lenox a beautiful place to live, but it is ... a beautiful place to die.”
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Kemble Inn is uniquely located on the hill top of three elevated acres in the center of historic Lenox; it offers open, unobstructed views of the splendid Berkshire Mountains. Miles of adjacent, development restricted woods expand from the back porch and lawn, differentiating Kemble Inn from other inns located in and around the center of the town of Lenox. A stunning location for weddings, anniversaries, reunions, corporate meetings and retreats.
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