Text: Arthur Hobson Quinn, “Appendix 01,” Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography (1941), pp. 697-724


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Appendices
 
I. The Theatrical Career of Edgar Poe's Parents

In a list of this extent, space will not permit argument concerning the conflicting testimony of different sources. In general the magazine or newspaper criticism published after the event is preferable to the advertisement. Owing to the constant changes of production on short notice, playbills are not as good evidence as newspaper notices of the succeeding day or even of the day of production. Where advertisements are the only available sources and differ from each other as to the parts assumed by the Poes, I have had to base my decision on their previous or later assumption of the parts, on the relative reliability of the newspapers, or on other factors. Where it is certain that the Poes took part in the play but no cast is given, their probable rôles are printed in brackets. Parts taken by Charles Hopkins are given only in connection with the Poes.

In preparing this list, its primary object, to show the variety and importance of the parts sustained by David and Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe, has never been sacrificed to mere uniformity. When the part assumed by either of them is first played, the name of the play and its author are given, if possible. When the rôle is repeated, the author or play is given only when the part is difficult to identify or when, as in Poe's last season, it seemed important to have the full record immediately available. Repetitions of the play during a season are briefly indicated, either on its first production or on its repetition, but the completeness of the chronicle has never been impaired merely to save space.

PARTS ACTED BY ELIZABETH ARNOLD

1796-1797

SOURCES: James Moreland. “The Theatre in Portland in the Eighteenth Century,” New England Quarterly, XI (June, 1938), 331-342; Search of Eastern Herald and Gazette of Maine by Miss Viola C. Hamilton, Secretary American Antiquarian Society; George O. Seilhamer, History of the American Theatre, Vol. III. [page 698:]

BOSTON THEATRE, April 15, 1796

Miss Arnold sings “The Market Lass.” Her first appearance.

PORTLAND, MAINE, Assembly Room

Nov. 25, 1796. Miss Biddy Bellair in Garrick's Miss in Her Teens.

Nov. 28. Solomon Smack, in Yarrow's Trick Upon Trick, or, The Vintner in the Suds. Repeated Dec. 5.

Dec. 20. Benefit of Miss Arnold. Little Pickle in Bickerstaffe's The Spoiled Child.

Jan. 3, 1797. Miss Arnold sings “Listen to the Voice of Love,” at the end of Home's Douglas.

Jan. 12. Miss Arnold's benefit. [Louisa or Jenny in Charles Dibdin's Deserter. Mrs. Bruin or Mrs. Sneak in The Mayor of Garratt.]’

Jan. 17. Miss Arnold speaks Epilogue on closing night of the season.

NEWPORT, R. I.

April 5, 1797. Solomon Smack repeated.

April 12. Mrs. Tubbs’ Benefit. Little Pickle repeated.

NEW YORK, John Street Theatre

Aug. 18, 1797. Maria in The Spoiled Child.

1797-1798

CHARLESTON, S. C. Sollee's Company at City Theatre, or Charleston Theatre

SOURCES: City Gazette and Daily Advertiser, searched by Miss E. A. Bull. checked by Miss Eola Willis's The Charleston Theatre in the Eighteenth Century (1924). Information concerning Wilmington furnished by Dr. Jay B. Hubbell.

Nov. 18, 1797. “A new song, called ‘The Market Lass’ by Miss Arnold, being her first appearance on this stage.”

Nov. 27. A Page in Cross's The Purse.

Nov. 29. The Child [Boy] in Birch's The Adopted Child. Repeated Dec. 4, 1797; Jan. 12, 15, 16, Feb. 13, 1798.

Dec. 6. Duke of York in Richard III.

Dec. 23, 25. Cupid in Pantomime, The Magic Chamber; or, Harlequin Protected by Cupid.

Feb. 5, 1798. The Child, in Southerne's Isabella; or, The Fatal Marriage. [page 699:]

Feb. 9. Dancing Nymph in Americana and Eleutheria; or, A New Tale of the Genii.

Feb. 24, 26. Julia in Henry Siddon's The Sicilian Romance.

WILMINGTON, N. C.

Tubb's “Secession” — at Wilmington, North Carolina. The Company performed for “nine nights.”

March 9, 1798. Lisette in Ballet, Lisette and Annette; Norah, in O’Keeffe's A Poor Soldier.

EDGAR's COMPANY — the Charleston Comedians, at the Charleston Theatre.

April 9, 1798. Nancy in Murphy's Three Weeks After Marriage.

April 18. Miss Arnold Sings.

April 20. Pink in O’Keeffe's The Young Quaker.

April 23. Sings in Glee from Shakespeare — Sigh no more, Ladies.

April 27. Anna in The Death of Major André; or, West Point Preserved. [William Brown's lost play?]

April 30. Benefit of Mr. Tubbs and Miss Arnold. Sophia in Hoicroft's Road to Ruin. Phoebe in Frances Brooke's Rosina. Speaks a Farewell Address.

Season closed May 2.

1799

PHILADELPHIA, Wignell's Company at the New Theatre

SOURCES: T. C. Pollock, The Philadelphia Theatre in the Eighteenth Century (1933). Search by E. Biddle Heg in Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser.

On account of the yellow fever, the New Theatre did not open for the season of 1798-1799 until February 5, 1799.

March 18, 1799. Miss Biddy Bellair. “Her first appearance on this stage.”

March 23. Little Pickle. Repeated April 8.

April 1. Boy in The Adopted Child.

April 8. Little Pickle.

April 12. Poggie in Byrne's pantomimic ballet, Highland Festivity.

April 13. Lauretta in Moultru's False and True.

April 15. Sicilian Girl in Andrews’ Mysteries of the Castle.

April 17. Norah in O’Keeffe's The Poor Soldier.

April 29. Moggy M’Gilpin in O’Keeffe's The Highland Reel.

May 8. Miss Biddy Bellair.

May 15. Fanny in S. J. Arnold's The Shipwreck. [page 700:]

May 20. Nina in John Rose's The Prisoner.

May 24, 25, 27. Beda in Colman's Blue Beard.

BALTIMORE, Wignell's Company at the New Theatre

SOURCES: Personal Search. The Telegraph and Daily Advertiser.

May 31, 1799. Miss Biddy Bellair. “Being her first appearance on this stage.”

June 5. Lauretta in False and True.

June 7. “Miss Arnold's Night.” Last appearance of Mr. Tubbs as “Master of Hotel” in Holcroft's He's Much to Blame.

June 10. Beda in Colman's Blue Beard.

Oct. 4, 1799. Molly Maybush in O’Keeffe's The Farmer.

Oct. 8. Beda in Blue Beard. Repeated Oct. 19, 21, 25; Nov. 4, 25, 26.

Oct. 9. “Principal character” in a ballet dance, given in connection with The Constellation; or, A Wreath for American Tars, with a representation of chase and action between the Constellation and Insurgente Frigates.

Oct. 16. Prince John of Lancaster in Henry IV, First Part.

Oct. 28. One of the “Females” in The Mountaineers.

Oct. 30. Catalina in O’Keeffe's The Castle of Andalusia.

Nov. 6. “Little Midshipman” in O’Keeffe's The Rival Soldiers; or, Sprigs of Laurel.

Nov. 8. Annette in MacNally's Robin Hood; or, Sherwood Forest.

Nov. 15. Indian Woman in Columbus; or, A World Discovered.

Nov. 28. Vocal part in the funeral procession in Act V of Romeo and Juliet.

1799-1800

PHILADELPHIA, Wignell's Company at the New Theatre

SOURCES: Search by E. Biddle Heg in The True American Commercial Advertiser and The Philadelphia Gazette and Universal Daily Advertiser.

Dec. 6, 1799. The Little Midshipman in O’Keeffe's The Rival Soldiers; or, Sprigs of Laurel.

Dec. 9. Annette in MacNally's Robin Hood.

Dec. 26. Sings in A Monody on Death of Washington, and is among the principal characters in a Ballet Dance, in The Constellation. Monody repeated Dec. 30.

March 14, 1800. Charles Hopkins in She Stoops to Conquer. “His first appearance on any stage.”

April 7. Dolly in Prince Hoare's Lock and Key. [page 701:]

April 8. Dance composed by Mr. Francis, on naval victory. Miss Arnold one of the principal characters.

April 16. Maria in The Sailor's Garland; or, The Family Picture.

April 19. Prince John of Lancaster in Henry IV, First Part.

April 24, 25. Jane in Thomas Dibdin's The Naval Pillar.

April 28. “A Female Villager” in Allingham's Fortune's Frolic.

May 3. Belinda in O’Keeffe's Modern Antiques; or, The Merry Mourners. Hopkins as Joey.

May 9. Benefit of Mrs. Snowden, Miss Arnold and Miss Solomons.

May 14, 16. A Priestess and Virgin of the Sun in Kotzebue's Pizarro, probably Dunlap's adaptation.

May 17. Dances in Francis's Shelty's Frolic; or, The Caledonian Fling. Repeated May 19. “Positively the last night this season.”

BALTIMORE, Wignell's Company, at the New Theatre

SOURCES: Personal Search. The Telegraph and Daily Advertiser. Also, Federal Gazette and Baltimore Daily Advertiser.

May 27, 1800. Boy in The Adopted Child.

May 28. Irish Lilt in Francis's arrangement of Shelty's Frolic. Repeated June 6 and 9.

May 30. Ellen in Kotzebue's Sighs; or, The Daughter, adapted by Prince Hoare.

June 2. Macbeth. The vocal parts by Miss Arnold and others.

June 3. Nancy in The Naval Pillar; or, A Wreath for American Sailors. Altered from Thomas Dibdin. Also, one of the “Females” in The Mountaineers, and a dancer in the ballet.

June 4. Sang in a Funeral Procession in Act V of Romeo and Juliet.

June 5. Benefit of Miss Arnold and Messrs. Hopkins and Blissett. Nancy in The Naval Pillar.

June 6. Cornelia (with a Song) in O’Keeffe's The Positive Man; or, Sailors on Shore.

June 7. Priestess, and Virgin of the Sun, in Pizarro; or, The Spaniards in Peru. Repeated June 9.

WASHINGTON, Wignell's Company at the United States Theatre in Blodgett's Hotel

SOURCES: Search by C. W. Hart in Georgetown Centinel of Liberty.

August 22, 1800. Little Pickle.

Sept. 5. A Minuet de la Cour in A Masquerade in Act I of Romeo and Juliet. Also sang in Funeral Procession in Act V.

Season closed September 19. [page 702:]

1800-1801

PHILADELPHIA, Wignell's Company, at the New Theatre

SOURCES: Search by Dr. Reese D. James, in Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser. See also Dr. James’ Old Drury of Philadelphia, A History of the Philadelphia Stage, 1800-35 (1932).

Oct. 8, 1800. A Female Villager in Allingham's Fortune's Frolic. Repeated Dec. 22.

Oct. 10. Irene in Blue Beard. Repeated Oct. 31, Dec. 17, Jan. 1, 1801, Feb. 18, April 7.

Oct. 17. A vocal part in An Epithalamium in Act III of Isabella.

Oct. 22. Priestess in Pizarro. Repeated Nov. 10, Dec. 22, Feb. 9. Also, Minuet de la Cour and a New Gavoto. Repeated Sept. 25, 1801.

Oct. 27. Dance in A Grand Masquerade in Act IV of Reynold's Management. Repeated Oct. 29, Nov. 21, 1800; Jan. 5, 1801.

Nov. 3. Vocal part in Lewis's The Castle Spectre. Repeated Nov. 14, Jan. 30, 1801.

Nov. 5. Ellen in Sighs.

Nov. 12. Norah in The Poor Soldier.

Nov. 14. Welsh Girl in St. David's Day; or, The Honest Welshman. Repeated Nov. 19, Nov. 28.

Nov. 17. Cupid in Garrick's Cymon and Sylvia.

Nov. 19. Attendant in The Law of Lombardy. Repeated Nov. 24, Dec. 3.

Dec. 1. Country Lass in Morton's Speed the Plough. Repeated Dec. 5, 10, 15, 26, Jan. 23, Feb. 16, March 18, April 7, 1801. Also Little Pickle.

Dec. 3. Celia in O’Keeffe's A Trip to Fontainbleau.

Dec. 5. Priscilla Tomboy in Bickerstaffe's The Romp. Repeated August 28, 1801; June 23, 1806.

Dec. 8. Catherine in Pearce's Netley Abbey. (Operatic farce.)

Dec. 15. Nelly in Prince Hoare's No Song No Supper.

Dec. 26. Lass in Christmas Gambols; or, Harlequin Mariner. Repeated Dec. 27, Jan. 2, Feb. 14, 1801.

Dec. 27. Indian Woman in Morton's Columbus.

Jan. 2, 1801. Prince of Wales in Richard III. Repeated Feb. 2.

Jan. 12. “Vocalist” in Alexander the Great. Repeated Jan. 14, 16, 19, 24, 26, Feb. 20.

Feb. 14. In a Spanish Fandango, composed by Mr. Francis. Also, Female in 2nd Act of The Mountaineers.

March 2. Zilia in Murphy's Peru Revenged; or, The Death of Pizarro. Also, Agnes in Holcroft's adaptation of Beaumarchais’ The Follies of a Day; or, The Marriage of Figaro. [page 703:]

March 11. Nancy in The Shakespeare Jubilee.

March 13. Rosina in Kotzebue's The Corsicans.

March 14. In Aladdin; or, The Wonderful Lamp. Repeated April 6. In a New Strathspey with others.

March 21. Benefit of Mrs. Bernard and Miss Arnold. Miss Arnold in song at end of Kemble's Point of Honour.

March 25. In A Treble Hornpipe. Between play and farce.

Season ended April 11.

1801

BALTIMORE, Wignell's Company at the New Theatre

SOURCES: Dr. John C. French, quoting K. C. Rede. Baltimore Sun, Jan. 22, 1933. Search by W. D. Hoyt, Jr., in The Telegraph and Daily Advertiser.

April 20, 1801. A Country Lass in Speed the Plough. Repeated May 2, May 23.

April 22. Welsh Girl in St. David's Day. Repeated April 27.

April 24. Celia in A Trip to Fontainbleau. Repeated April 25, May 16.

April 29. Little Girl in Kotzebue's The Count of Burgundy. Also, a Villager in Fortune's Frolic.

May 4. Vocal Part in The Castle Spectre. Repeated May 11.

May 6. Laura in Lock and Key.

May 9. A Visiting Lady in The Deaf Lover.

May 13. Vocal Part in Romeo and Juliet; also danced Minuet de la Cour. Also, The Little Midshipman in The Rival Soldiers.

May 15. One of Females in The Mountaineers. Also, Belinda in Modern Antiques.

May 18. Fanny in The Shipwreck.

May 20. Ghita in William Cobb's The Siege of Belgrade.

May 25. A Vocal Part in Macbeth.

May 27. One of Principal Vocal Parts in The Virgin of the Sun. Repeated May 29.

June 4. Danced in pantomime, Aladdin.

June 5. Minuet de la Cour and New Gavot in The Merchant of Venice.

June 6. Lass in The Highland Reel. Also danced and sang.

June 8. Vocal Part in Alexander the Great. Repeated June 9.

June 10. Indian Woman in Columbus. Also, Irene in Blue Beard. [page 704:]

1801-1802

PHILADELPHIA, Wignell's Company, New Theatre, in July; Southwark Theatre, August 14th to October 2nd; New Theatre, to April 7th

SOURCES: Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser, as for the season of 1800-1801.

July 17, 1801. Principal part in a Roundelay and Chorus in Act III of The Battle of Hexham; or, Days of Old.

Aug. 14. Song after The West-Indian.

Aug. 28. Priscilla Tomboy in The Romp.

Sept. 7. Moggy in The Highland Reel.

Sept. 21. Miss Arnold in song.

Sept. 23. Ophelia in Hamlet.

Sept. 25. Minuet de la Cour.

Oct. 2. Song at end of The Midnight Hour.

Dec. 18. Camira [Selima] in Dibdin's Il Bondocani.

Dec. 26. Sam's Wife in Obi; or, Three Fingered Jack. Repeated Dec. 28, 30.

Feb. 24, 1802. Attendant nymph in Hercules and Omphale, grand historic pantomime. Repeated Feb. 27, March 3, 4, 5.

March 19. “First actress” in The Manager in Distress.

March 22. “Favorite song” by Miss Arnold.

March 24. Pantomimical dance arranged by Mr. Francis, called The Scheming Milliner. Miss Arnold in Reels, Strathspeys, and Waltz.

March 27. Grace Gaylove in Colman's The Review, or The Wags of Windsor.

April 7. Benefit of Mrs. Snowden, Miss Arnold and Mr. Usher. Speed the Plough. Miss Arnold in Song.

BALTIMORE, Wignell's Company at the New Theatre

SOURCES: Search by W. D. Hoyt, Jr., in The Telegraph and Daily Advertiser.

April 22, 1802. Phoebe in Rosina.

April 26. Juba in Prince Hoare's The Prize; or, 2,5,3,8.

May 1. A “Principal part” in the chorus of George Colman's The Battle of Hexham; or, Days of Old. Also, Grace Gaylove in The Review, or, The Man of All Trades, also known as The Wags of Windsor.

May 3. One of the Female Attendants in Robert Jephson's The Law of Lombardy. Also, Mary in Knight's The Turnpike Gate. Repeated May 10.

May 5. Camira in Il Bondocani; or, The Caliph Robber. [page 705:]

May 7. One of the vocal parts in Macbeth.

May 8. An Attendant Nymph in Act I of Hercules and Omphale, “a Grand Heroic Pantomime.” Repeated May 12, 13, 17, June 7.

May 10. One of the Priestesses and Virgins of the Sun in The Virgin of the Sun.

May 14. Angelica in The Shipwreck.

May 19. Fatima in Blue Beard.

May 21. Page (Eugene) in Cumberland's adaptation of Kotzebue's Joanna of Montfaucon. Also, Molly Maybush in The Farmer.

May 22. First Actress in The Manager in Distress, a prelude in 1 act. Repeated May 28. Also, Sukey Starch in Harlequin Hurry Scurry; or, A Rural Rumpus, a pantomimical afterpiece.

May 24. One of the Lasses in O’Keeffe's The Highland Reel.

May 26. An Attendant in Congreve's The Mourning Bride. Also, Diana in O’Keeffe's The London Hermit; or, Rambles in Dorsetshire.

May 27. Vocal Part in The Castle Spectre.

May 30. One of the Lasses in The Sailor's Landlady; or, Jack in Distress, a pantomimical dance. Also, Belinda in Modern Antiques; or, The Merry Mourners.

June 1. An Attendant in The Earl of Essex; or, The Unhappy Favorite. Also, Nelly in No Song No Supper.

June 2. Vocal Part in Alexander the Great; or, The Rival Queens.

June 3. Nancy in The Shakespeare Jubilee, an entertainment in music, dialogue, and spectacle by David Garrick. In Act II a grand pageant exhibiting the most prominent characters in Shakespeare's plays, including Miss Arnold as Miranda in The Tempest.

June 4. Benefit performance for Mr. Usher, Mrs. Snowden, and Miss Arnold. Irene in Blue Beard.

June 5. Country Girl in Lovers’ Vows. Also, Norah in The Poor Soldier. Also, one of Dancers in The Scheming Milliner.

June 8. One of the Circassians in The Corsair; or, The Egyptian Robber. Repeated June 9, 10.

June 10. Herman, a Page, in M. G. Lewis's Adelmorn the Outlaw.

June 12. A song, “Moggy, or the Highland Bell,” in a Miscellaneous Entertainment.

ELIZABETH ARNOLD HOPKINS

1802

ALEXANDRIA, Green's Virginia Company, at the Alexandria Theatre

SOURCES: Alexandria Columbian Advertiser. Searched by Mrs. Lillian A. Hall, Harvard Theatre Collection, Robert H. Haynes, Assistant [page 706:] Librarian, Harvard College Library, and Miss Viola C. Hamilton, of the American Antiquarian Society.

Theatre to open week of July 25, 1802. Notices begin August 2.

August 6, 1802. Hopkins as Father Philip in The Castle Spectre.

August 11. Hopkins as Sir Abel Handy in Speed the Plough; Mrs. Hopkins as Fanny in The Shipwreck, Hopkins as Stave. [First mention of “Mrs. Hopkins.”]

August 14. Mrs. Hopkins as Little Pickle and Hopkins as John in The Spoiled Child. Hopkins as Orozembo in Pizarro.

Sept. 4. Hopkins as Major Domo, Mrs. Hopkins as Greek Slave in The Corsair, or, The Egyptian Robber.

Sept. 9. Minuet de la Cour and New Gavot by Mrs. Hopkins.

Sept. 11. Mrs. Hopkins danced a Spanish Fandango in The Mountaineers.

Sept. 13. Last Night. Mrs. Hopkins dances.

Sept. 16. A Grand Concert, at Gadby's Hotel. Mrs. Hopkins sang “The Lass of the Lake,” “The Day of Marriage,” and “Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes.”(1)

1803

NORFOLK, Green's Virginia Company. Norfolk or New Theatre

SOURCES: Search by Marshall W. Butt, Genealogist, in the Norfolk Herald.

March 9, 10, 1803. Hopkins as Tilman Totum and Mrs. Hopkins as Louisa in Prince Hoare's adaptation of Kotzebue's Sighs. Also, Rosina in Rosina.

March 12. Grace Gaylove in The Review; or, The Wags of Windsor. Repeated March 17.

March 16. Mary Tactic in The Rival Soldiers; or, Sprigs of Laurel. Repeated June 25.

March 21. Elmira in Bickerstaffe's The Sultan.

March 23. Zelina in J. D. Burk's Oberon; or, The Siege of Mexico.

April 1. Annette in Robin Hood. Also, Greek Slave in Corsair.

April 12. Mrs. Hopkins as Moggy McGilpin in The Highland Reel. [page 707:]

April 18. Beda in Colman's Blue Beard. Also, Miss Nancy in Fortune's Frolic.

April 23. Maria in The Sailor's Garland. Also, Jenny in The Fruitless Precaution (pantomimical Ballet).

April 25. Miss Nevile in She Stoops to Conquer. Also, Eliza Creville in Henry Bate's The Flitch of Bacon.

April 27, 28. Orilla in M. G. Lewis's Adelmorn.

April 30. Rose Sydney in Thomas Morton's Secrets Worth Knowing. Also, Rosina in Rosina.

June 6. Louisa in Sighs. Also, Wilelmina in Charles Dibdin's The Waterman.

June 8. Irene in Blue Beard. Also, Adelaide in O’Keeffe's Prisoner at Large.

June 23. Mary in Thomas Knight's The Turnpike Gate.

July 1. Benefit of Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins, Dance, A Pas Suel [sic] by Mrs. Hopkins after play Columbus.

July 8. Song by Mrs. Hopkins in A Musical Olio. Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins in a Triumphal Glee of the Red Knights, on their return from the Holy Land.

July 11. Song and Dance by Mrs. Hopkins.

July 13. [Emma] with song at end of Thomas Dibdin's Reconciliation; or, The Birthday, from Kotzebue.

DAVID POE, JR.

1803-1804

CHARLESTON, Placide's Company, The Charleston Theatre

SOURCES: Search by Miss Emma A. Bull in Charleston City Gazette and Daily Advertiser, Charleston Courier, the Times, Carolina Gazette. References in Robert A. Law, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, XXI (April, 1922), 344-346; Eola Willis, “The Dramatic Career of Poe's Parents,” Bookman, 64 (Nov., 1926), 288-291; William S. Hoole, A History of the Charleston Theatre (Ms.); Emmett Robinson, Ms. notes on Charleston Stage.

Dec. 1, 1808. Officer in Faucet's Pantomime from Kotzebue's La Peyrouse. Repeated Feb. 25, 1804.

Dec. 5. Laertes in Brooke's Gustavus Vasa. “Being his second appearance on any stage.”

Dec. 7. Harry Thunder in O’Keeffe's Wild Oats. Repeated Dec. 20.

Dec. 9. Donalbain in Macbeth.

Dec. 16. [Grimm] in Schiller's The Robbers. Also, an Indian in Robinson Crusoe. [page 708:]

The Company left for Savannah, Georgia, on December 23, 1803. The next notice of Poe in Charleston occurs on

Jan. 31, 1804. Falieri in Zschokke's Abaellino. Repeated Feb. 13, 1804.

Feb. 2. Stephano in Holcroft's Tale of Mystery. Repeated Feb. 14.

Feb. 10. Tressel in King Richard III. Repeated Feb. 27.

Feb. 14. Pedro in Dunlap's The Voice of Nature, adaptation of Caigniez's La Jugement de Salomon. Repeated Feb. 21, March 2.

Feb. 15. Grimm in The Robbers.

Feb. 16. Young Woodland in Reynolds’ Cheap Living. Repeated Feb. 20.

Feb. 18. Williams in John Bull.

Feb. 21. Allan A-Dale in Robin Hood. Repeated March 3, March 15.

Feb. 25. Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing.

March 5. Thomas in J. T. Allingham's The Marriage Promise. Repeated March 9.

March 7. Trueman in Lillo's George Barnwell.

March 12. Camillo in Jephson's Julia; or, The Italian Lover.

March 15. Trifle in M. G. Lewis's Rivers; or, The East Indian. Repeated March 21, April 9.

March 19. Dennis Crackskull in Sheridan's Saint Patrick's Day.

April 2. Don Garcia in Mrs. Cowley's A Bold Stroke for a Husband. Also, Mezetin in Dibdin and Garrick's The Touchstone of Truth.

April 4. Don Antonio Gaspard in Workman's Liberty in Louisiana.

April 9. A Hunter in The Fatherless Children.

April 12. Hortensio in Catherine and Petruchio.

April 19. Sebastian in Reynolds’ Charlotte and Werter. Also, Lover in The Old Soldier, a pantomime.

MR. AND MRS. HOPKINS, DAVID POE, JR.

1804-1804

RICHMOND, Green's Virginia Company, at the Richmond Theatre

SOURCES: Search by Miss Mary F. Goodwin, Historiographer of the Diocese of Southern Virginia, in the Virginia Gazette, the Richmond Enquirer, the Richmond Argus, the Impartial Observer, the Virginian, the Virginia Patriot.

Season opened December 21, 1803.

Jan. 18, 1804. Hopkins as Sir Simon Rochdale in John Bull.

Feb. 13. Hopkins as Fulmer in The West Indian.

Feb. 14. Hopkins as Old Rapid in Morton's A Cure for the Heart Ache.

Feb. 18. Hopkins as Father Philip in Castle Spectre and Young Cockney in The Romp. [page 709:]

March 7. Hopkins as Sir Ralph Aspen in Hear Both Sides.

March 10. It is announced that $230 was raised at the benefit for the fire sufferers in Norfolk.

March 14. Hopkins as Apothecary and Peter in Romeo and Juliet.

March 21. Benefit of Mrs. Hopkins. [Bertha] in The Point of Honor. [Laura] in The Agreeable Surprise.

March 24. Hopkins as Mr. Sallus in Every One Has His Fault.

The Theatre was open only occasionally from April 7 to June 27, 1804. No mention of Mr. or Mrs. Hopkins until June 30. They may have been in Norfolk, but no file of Norfolk papers for the spring of 1804 is available.

June 30. Hopkins as Sir Abel Handy, Mrs. Hopkins as Susan Ashfield and Poe as Henry in Speed the Plough. “Mr. Poe, from the Charleston Theatre, will make his first appearance on our boards this evening.”

July 17. Hopkins as Nicholas, Poe as Valet and Mrs. Hopkins as Rose Sidney in Secrets Worth Knowing. Also Poe as Selwyn, Hopkins as Stave and Mrs. Hopkins as Fanny in The Shipwreck.

July 21. Mrs. Hopkins in dance at end of Christopher Columbus.

July 25. Poe as Henry Morland, Hopkins as Dr. Pangloss and Mrs. Hopkins as Caroline Dormer in Colman's The Heir at Law. Original Epilogue, Mr. Poe, Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins.

July 27. Hopkins as Gov. Heartall, Poe as Timothy Quaint, Mrs. Hopkins as Mrs. Malford in The Soldier's Daughter.

Aug. 4. Hopkins as Goldfinch, Poe as Jacob, and Mrs. Hopkins as Sophia in The Road to Ruin. Also, Hopkins as Major Benbow, Poe as Nat Putty and Mrs. Hopkins as Eliza Greville in Flitch of Bacon.

Aug. 8. Hopkins as Shelty, Mrs. Hopkins as Moggy McCilpin in Highland Reel. Also, Joey and Belinda in Modern Antiques.

Aug. 11. Benefit of Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins. Poe as Lindorf, Hopkins as Dr. Cranium and Mrs. Hopkins as Stella in Boaden's The Maid of Bristol.

Aug. 15. Benefit for Miss Melford and Mr. Poe. Poe [George Barnwell] in George Barnwell.

Aug. 25. Poe as Duke of Buckingham in Jane Shore. Mrs. Hopkins in An Allemande.

Aug. 29. Mrs. Hopkins in Original Epilogue and [Julio] in Deaf and Dumb. Mr. Hopkins in Comic Song and Recitation.

Sept. 1. Mrs. Hopkins and Mr. Poe in an Allemande.

The Company may have been in Petersburg in November, but no file is available. [page 710:]

Dec. 8. Poe as Inkle, Hopkins as Trudge and Mrs. Hopkins as Narcissa in Colman's Inkle and Yarico. Also, Poe as Richard, Hopkins as Sam and Mrs. Hopkins as Miss Peggy Plainway in Kenney's Raising the Wind. Second cast repeated Jan. 5, 1805.

Dec. 19. Hopkins as Job Thornberry, Poe as Frank Rochdale, and Mrs. Hopkins as Mary Thornberry in John Bull. Also, Poe as Charles in The Village Lawyer.

Dec. 26. Poe as George Barnwell in George Barnwell. Also, Hopkins as Billy Bluff, Poe as Tom Tough and Mrs. Hopkins as Sallie Trueheart in Christmas Gambols, comic ballet pantomime. Also, Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins as Sharp and Melissa in The Lying Valet.

Jan. 3, 1805. Hopkins as Dr. Ollapod, Mrs. Hopkins as Emily Worthington and Poe as Sir Charles Cropland in Colman's The Poor Gentleman. Hopkins in Song and Minuet and Poe and Mrs. Hopkins in A Strathspey. Also, Hopkins as Record, Mrs. Hopkins as Clare and Poe as Le Sage in The Adopted Child. Cast of Christmas Gambols repeated from Dec. 26, 1804.

Jan. 5. Hopkins as Sir Andrew Acid, Mrs. Hopkins as Honoria, and Poe as Clairville in Reynolds’ Notoriety. Also, Kenney's Raising the Wind, repeated, with cast as on Jan. 5.

Jan. 18. Benefit of Mrs. Hopkins. Mrs. Hopkins in Song, Hornpipe and Allemande.

1805

NORFOLK, Green's Virginia Company

SOURCES: Norfolk Gazette and Public Ledger; Norfolk and Portsmouth Herald, as before.

April 6, 1805. Poe as Joey in Allingham's Hearts of Oak.

April 15. A Strathspey by Poe, Mrs. Green and Mrs. Hopkins after George Barnwell.

May 1. Mrs. Hopkins as Annette in Robin Hood.

BALTIMORE, The Virginia Company at the Baltimore Theatre

SOURCES: The Federal Gazette and Baltimore Daily Advertiser.

June 7, 1805. David Poe as Young Norval in Home's Douglas, his first appearance on the Baltimore stage.

RICHMOND, Haymarket Theatre

SOURCE: Virginia Gazette and Weekly Advertiser.

Aug. 28, 1805. Mrs. Hopkins in a concert. [page 711:]

WASHINGTON, The Virginia Company at the Washington Theatre

SOURCES: The National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser.

Sept. 9, 1805. Hopkins as Lord Priory in Mrs. Inchbald's Wives as They Were and Maids as They Are. Hopkins as Tiptoe and Mrs. Hopkins as Kitty in Ways and Means; or, A Trip to Dover.

Sept. 26. Poe as Joseph Surface and Hopkins as Sir Peter Teazle in The School for Scandal.

Oct. 2. Poe recites “Alonzo and Imogine” [sic]. Repeated Oct. 4.

Oct. 7. Mr. Hopkins’ Benefit. The Wife of Two Husbands, parts not given.

Oct. 26. Hopkins dies.

Nov. 6. Mrs. Hopkins’ Benefit. Lewis's Adelmorn the Outlaw, and Fielding's Tom Thumb the Great, parts not given.

Season closed December 21, 1805.

DAVID POE AND ELIZABETH HOPKINS

1806

RICHMOND, Green's Virginia Company, at the Richmond Theatre

SOURCES: Richmond newspapers, as before, especially Virginia Gazette.

Jan. 25, 1806. Mrs. Hopkins as Anna in Home's Douglas. A Hornpipe and Song by Mrs. Hopkins.

Jan. 29. Mrs. Hopkins as Charlotte in Moore's The Gamester.

Feb. 1. Poe as Mandeville and Mrs. Hopkins as Julia Clairville in Cumberland's The Sailor's Daughter. Mrs. Hopkins in song at end of play.

Feb. 5. Poe as Sir Larry M’Murragh and Mrs. Hopkins as Amy in Colman's Who Wants a Guinea? Also, Mrs. Hopkins as Miss Biddy Bellair. Repeated Feb. 8.

Feb. 8. Mrs. Hopkins as Nancy in Murphy's Three Weeks After Marriage.

Feb. 13. Mr. Poe as Villars and Mrs. Hopkins as Sophia Woodbine in Reynolds’ The Blind Bargain; or, Hear it Out.

Feb. 15. Poe as Henry Morland and Mrs. Hopkins as Caroline Dormer in The Heir at Law.

Feb. 26, March 1. Poe as Harry Harebrain and Mrs. Hopkins as Miss Manly in Thomas Dibdin's The Will for the Deed. (“First time in America.”) Also, Mrs. Hopkins as Julia in Mrs. Inchbald's The Midnight Hour.

March 29. Mrs. Hopkins’ Benefit. Mrs. Hopkins as Matilda, Lady Randolph, in Douglas.

April 7. Mrs. Hopkins as Irene in Blue Beard. [page 712:]

DAVID AND ELIZABETH POE

April 10. Poe as Malford and Mrs. Poe as Mrs. Malford in The Soldier's Daughter.

Season lasted until May 18, but no casts given.

PHILADELPHIA, “New Theatre,” Warren and Wood's Company

SOURCE: American Daily Advertiser.

June 20, 1806. Poe as Young Norval in Douglas. “His first appearance on this stage.” Mrs. Poe as Rosina in Rosina.

June 23. Poe as Jack Analyse in The Blind Bargain. Mrs. Poe as Priscilla Tomboy in The Romp.

June 27. Poe as Fainwou’d in Raising the Wind.

June 30. Poe as Captain Loveit and Mrs. Poe as Biddy Bellair in Miss In Her Teens.

July 4. Songs by Mrs. Poe.

July 7. Mrs. Poe as Agnes in The Mountaineers.

July 9. Poe as Switzer in The Robbers. Mrs. Poe as Miss Kitty Sprightly in Isaac Jackman's All the World's A Stage.

NEW YORK, The Summer Theatre, Vauxhall

SOURCE: G. C. D. Odell's Annals of the New York Stage, II, 272.

July 16, 1806. Mrs. Poe as Priscilla Tomboy.

July 18. Poe as Captain Belleville and Mrs. Poe as Rosina in Rosina. Also, Poe as Frank in Allingham's Fortune's Frolic.

1806-1807

BOSTON, Powell's Company at the Boston Theatre

SOURCES: For the three seasons in Boston, 1806-1809, search by Miss Mary S. Douglass through newspapers, The Democrat, The Gazette, The Columbian Centinel, The Repertory, The Patriot, The New England Palladium, The Independent Chronicle, all of Boston. These newspaper advertisements have been checked by The Polyanthos, III (Sept.-Nov., 1806), IV (Dec., 1806-March, 1807), V (April, 1807-July, 1807); The Emerald, I, II, N. S. I (1806-1808); Boston letters in The Theatrical Censor and Critical Miscellany of Philadelphia, Nos. 1-13 (Sept. 27, 1806-Dec. 30, 1806); also information furnished by Professor Milton Ellis and by Mrs. L. A. Hall, of the Harvard Theatre Collection. Article by W. K. Watkins, in Boston Evening Transcript, Jan. 13, 1909. [page 713:]

Oct. 13, 1806. Poe as Henry and Mrs. Poe as Miss Blandford in Morton's Speed the Plough. Also Mrs. Poe as Rosina in Rosina. First appearance of Poe in Boston, first appearance of Mrs. Poe there since 1796.

Oct. 15. Poe as Frederick and Mrs. Poe as Amelia Wildenhaim in Mrs. Inchbald's adaptation of Lover's Vows. Also, Mrs. Poe as Gillian in The Quaker.

Oct. 17. Poe as Charles Stanley, Mrs. Poe as Jessy Oatland in Morton's A Cure for the Heart Ache.

Oct. 20. Mrs. Poe sings “Just Like Love.”

Oct. 22. Poe as George Barnwell in George Barnwell. Also, Mrs. Poe as Priscilla Tomboy.

Oct. 27. Poe as Sir George Touchwood in The Belle's Stratagem. Repeated Oct. 29. Also, Mrs. Poe as 1st Cottager in Don Juan. Repeated Nov. 10.

Oct. 29. Mrs. Poe as Leonora in Bickerstaffe's The Padlock.

Oct. 31. Mrs. Poe as Priscilla Tomboy.

Nov. 5. Poe as Valverde in Sheridan's adaptation, Pizarro in Peru.

Nov. 7. Mrs. Poe as Rose Sydney in Secrets Worth Knowing.

Nov. 10. Poe as Bellmour in Rowe's Jane Shore.

Nov. 12. Mrs. Poe as Fanny in Garrick's Clandestine Marriage. Also Virginia in Paul and Virginia.

Nov. 14. Poe as Maurice in Cobb's version of The Wife of Two Husbands.

Nov. 17. Poe as Bedemar in Otway's Venice Preserved. Repeated Nov. 26 and March 6, 1807. Also, Mrs. Poe as Maria in Burgoyne's The Maid of the Oaks.

Nov. 19. Poe as Frank Rochdale and Mrs. Poe as Mary Thornberry in John Bull. Also Mrs. Poe as Spring in The Four Seasons. Repeated Dec. 24.

Nov. 21. Poe as Armstrong and Mrs. Poe as Barbara in Colman's The Iron Chest. Repeated Nov. 24. Also Poe as Mr. Frank in Fortune's Frolic.

Dec. 1. Poe as Count Montalban in Tobin's Honeymoon. Mrs. Poe as Margaretta in No Song No Supper.

Dec. 3. Poe as Sir Harry in James Townley's High Life Below Stairs.

Dec. 10. Poe as Harry Stukely and Mrs. Poe as Kitty Sprightly in All the World's A Stage.

Dec. 17. Poe as Count Basset and Mrs. Poe as Miss Jenny in The Provoked Husband. Repeated Dec. 29. Also Poe as Dermot in Dermot and Kathleen. Repeated Dec. 22.

Dec. 31. Poe as Edward and Mrs. Poe as Laura Luckless in Thomas Dibdin's Five Miles Off. Also Poe as Khor and Mrs. Poe as Princess Lodoiska in Kemble's adaptation of Lodoiska. [page 714:]

Jan. 5, 1807. Poe as Altamont in Rowe's The Fair Penitent. Also Khor and Princess Lodoiska repeated.

Jan. 7. Poe as Frederick and Mrs. Poe as Mariana in The Miser, Fielding's adaptation of Molière.

Jan. 12. Poe as Harry Torrid in Edward Morris's The Secret. Mrs. Poe as Clorinda in Robin Hood.

Jan. 14. Poe as Osmyn in Turnbull's The Maid of Hungary.

Jan. 16. Poe as Beauchamp and Mrs. Poe as Sophy Pendragon in Mrs. Cowley's Which is the Man?

Jan. 19. Poe as Percy in Castle Spectre.

Jan. 21. Poe as Laertes to Cooper's Hamlet.

Jan. 26. Poe as Malcolm in Macbeth. Also Dermot in Dermot and Kathleen. See Dec. 17.

Jan. 28. Poe as Montano in Othello. Repeated Feb. 23.

Jan. 30. Poe as Tressel in Richard III. Also as Patie in Patie and Peggy.

Feb. 2. Poe as Frank in Fortune's Frolic.

Feb. 4. Poe as Duke of Medina in Beaumont and Fletchers’ Rule a Wife and Have a Wife.

Feb. 11. Poe as Hassan in The Castle Spectre.

Feb. 16. Poe as Charles Surface in The School for Scandal. Also Ferdinand in Jephson's Two Strings to Your Bow.

Feb. 25. Poe as Laertes to Fennell's Hamlet. Also Poe as Bagatelle and Mrs. Poe as Norah in The Poor Soldier.

March 2. Poe as George Barnwell in George Barnwell. [King Lear postponed on account of Fennell's illness. Polyanthos IV, 282.]

March 4. Mrs. Poe as Little Pickle.

March 6. Poe as Bedemar.

March 9. Poe as Sir Charles Freeman and Mrs. Poe as Cherry in The Beaux Stratagem.

March 11. Mrs. Poe as Cordelia to Fennell's King Lear. Repeated March 12. Also Little Pickle.

March 13. Poe as Duke of Austria and Mrs. Poe as Blanch in King John. Also Poe as Sergeant Jack and Mrs. Poe as Moggy in The Highland Reel.

March 16. Poe as Duke of Albany and Mrs. Poe as Cordelia in King Lear. Also Mrs. Poe as Lydia in Oulton's The Sixty[[-]]Third Letter.

March 18. Poe as Blushenly in Cumberland's The Natural Son. Also Mrs. Poe as Leonora in The Padlock.

March 20. Poe as Colonel Raymond and Mrs. Poe as Fidelia, in Moore's The Foundling.

March 23. Poe as Francis in The Stranger. Also Mrs. Poe as Madame Peyrouse in La Peyrouse.

March 25. Poe as Orozimbo and Mrs. Poe as Cora in Morton's Columbus. Also Lenox and Mary in The Rival Soldiers. [page 715:]

March 26. Poe as Count Montalban and Mrs. Poe as Volante in Tobin's Honeymoon. Also Poe as Sir Harry in High Life Below Stairs.

March 30. Poe as Pylades in Ambrose Philips’ Distrest Mother. Also Poe as Khor and Mrs. Poe as Princess Lodoiska.

April 1. Poe as Duke of Albany and Mrs. Poe as Cordelia in King Lear. Also Captain Loveit and Miss Biddy in Miss In Her Teens.

April 6. Poe as Decius Brutus in Julius Caesar. Mrs. Poe as Priscilla Tomboy.

April 8. Poe as Beef Eater and Mrs. Poe as Italian Girl in The Critic.

April 13. Poe as Sir Edward Specious and Mrs. Poe as Olivia in Reynolds’ The Delinquent. Also Mrs. Poe as Lydia in Colman's Love Laughs at Locksmiths.

April 15. Mrs. Poe as Emily Worthington in Colman's The Poor Gentleman. Also Poe as Sir Bertrand and Mrs. Poe as Clara in The Adopted Child.

April 20. Mrs. Poe's Benefit. Poe as Young O’Donovan and Mrs. Poe as Sophia in O’Keeffe's The Lie of a Day. Also, Mrs. Poe as Sylvia in Cymon and Sylvia.

April 22. Mrs. Poe as Laura in Arnold's The Agreeable Surprise.

April 24. Poe as Ferdinand and Mrs. Poe as Ariel in The Tempest.

April 29. Poe as Marquis of Montague in Colman's The Battle of Hexham. Also Mrs. Poe as Spring in The Four Seasons. See Nov. 19, 1806.

May 1. Poe as Fernando in Cypriani's pantomime, The Algerine Pirate.

May 4. Poe as Melchior in M. G. Lewis's Alfonso, King of Castile. Also Jack Junk in The Boston Sailors. Also Mrs. Poe as Molly Maybush in The Farmer.

May 6. Poe as Bertrand in Tobin's The Curfew. Repeated May 15. Also Mrs. Poe as Betsey Blossom in The Deaf Lover.

May 8. Poe as Melville and Mrs. Poe as Sally Williams in Dunlap's Glory of Columbia. Also Mrs. Poe as Lydia in Love Laughs at Locksmiths.

May 11. Song by Mrs. Poe, dance by Poe.

May 15. Mrs. Poe as Fanny Atkins in The Mogul Tale.

May 18. Poe as Contarino and Mrs. Poe as Rosamonda in Abaellino, the Great Bandit. Also Doodle and Queen Dollalolla in Fielding's The Tragedy of Tragedies.

May 20. Mrs. Poe as Mrs. Malfort in The Soldier's Daughter. Also Josephine in The Children in the Wood.

May 22. Benefit of Mr. and Mrs. Poe. The Curfew. Poe as Bertrand. Also A Double Hornpipe by Mrs. Poe and Signor Cipriani. Also [page 716:] The Tragedy of Tragedies. Poe as Doodle and Mrs. Poe as Queen Dollalolla.

May 25. Poe as Jack Junk in The Boston Sailors. Also Mrs. Poe as Eliza in The Flitch of Bacon.

Theatrical season closed with this performance.

1807-1808

BOSTON (continued)

Sept. 18, 1807. Mrs. Poe as Rosina in Rosina; also as Clorinda in Robin Hood.

Sept. 21. Mrs. Poe as Donna Clara in Sheridan's The Duenna. Poe as Captain Seymour in The Irishman in London.

Sept. 28. Poe as Bertrand in Tobin's The Curfew.

Oct. 2. Poe as Count Montalban and Mrs. Poe as Zamora in Tobin's Honeymoon.

Oct. 5. Mrs. Poe as Cordelia in King Lear.

Oct. 9. Poe as Captain Glenroy and Mrs. Poe as Rosalie Somers in Morton's Town and Country. Repeated Oct. 16.

Oct. 14. Mrs. Poe as Little Pickle in The Spoiled Child.

Oct. 22. Poe as Mandeville in He Would Be a Soldier; also, Mrs. Poe as Peace, in a military and naval spectacle.

Oct. 26. Poe as Sir Richard Vernon in Henry IV; Mrs. Poe as Genevieve in Dimond's The Hunter of the Alps.

Oct. 30. Mrs. Poe as Ophelia in Hamlet and Leonora in The Padlock.

Nov. 2. Poe as Contarino and Mrs. Poe as Rosamonda in Abaellino, the Great Bandit.

Nov. 6. Poe as Salanio and Mrs. Poe a Jessica in Merchant of Venice; also Mrs. Poe as Narcissa in Inkle and Yarico.

Nov. 9. Poe as Francis in The Stranger; also, Poe as Khor and Mrs. Poe as the Princess in Lodoiska.

Nov. 16. Poe as Norfolk in Henry VIII; also, Mrs. Poe as Lydia in The Sixty-Third Letter.

Nov. 30. Mrs. Poe as Variella in Kenney's The Weathercock. Repeated Feb. 26, 1808.

Dec. 2. Poe as Altamont in The Fair Penitent.

Dec. 14 [or 16]. Mrs. Poe as Maria in Burgoyne's Maid of the Oaks.

Dec. 18. Mrs. Poe as Mrs. Malfort in The Soldier's Daughter.

Dec. 30. Poe as Henry Morland and Mrs. Poe as Cicely Homespun in The Heir at Law.

Jan. 4, 1808. Mrs. Poe as Maria in Of Age Tomorrow.

Jan. 8. Poe as Charles Stanley and Mrs. Poe as Jessy Oatland in A Cure for the Heart Ache. [page 717:]

Jan. 11. Poe as the Duke of Albany and Mrs. Poe as Cordelia in King Lear.

Jan. 15. Poe as Milford in The Road to Ruin.

Jan. 25. Poe as Tressel in Richard III; also Captain Heartwell in The Prize.

Jan. 29. Mrs. Poe as Ophelia in Hamlet; Poe as Sandford in Who's The Dupe?

Feb. 1. Poe as the Duke of Albany and Mrs. Poe as Cordelia in King Lear; Poe as Scruple in Colman's Ways and Means.

Feb. 5. Poe as Dawson in Moore's The Gamester.

Feb. 8. Poe as Volusius in Coriolanus; also Sandford in Who's the Dupe?

Feb. 15. Poe as Malcolm in Macbeth.

Feb. 18. Mrs. Poe as Mary Tactic in The Rival Soldiers.

Feb. 22. Mrs. Poe as Phoebe Whitethorn in The Wags of Windsor.

Feb. 26. Mrs. Poe as Variella in The Weathercock.

March 4. Mrs. Poe as Virginia in Paul and Virginia.

March 7. Mrs. Poe as Albina in Reynolds’ The Will.

March 11. Mrs. Poe as Arabella in Mrs. Cowley's More Ways Than One; also Fatima in Blue Beard.

March 14. Poe as Brenno and Mrs. Poe as Herman in Adelmorn the Outlaw; also, Mrs. Poe as Clara in The Adopted Child.

March 16. Mrs. Poe sang a song in The Sailor's Daughter.

March 21. Benefit of Mr. and Mrs. Poe. Poe as Ataliba and Mrs. Poe as Cora in The Virgin of the Sun; Mrs. Poe as Selina in A Tale of Mystery.

March 25. Poe as Elvirus in Such Things Are; Mrs. Poe as Pleasure in Harlequin's Choice.

April 8, 11. Poe as Sir Arthur Tessel and Mrs[[.]] Poe as Zelidy in Henry Siddons’ Time Tells a Tale.

April 14. Poe as Claransforth and Mrs. Poe as Ellen Metland in Mrs. Inchbald's alteration of Kotzebue's The Wise Man of the East.

April 18. Benefit of Mr. and Mrs. Poe. Poe as Francis De Moor and Mrs. Poe as Amelia in Hodgkinson's adaptation of Schiller's The Robbers; also, Poe as Elector and Mrs. Poe as Ella in Ella Rosenberg.

April 25. Poe as Tourly and Mrs. Poe as Sophia Woodbine in The Blind Bargain.

1808

RICHMOND, The Haymarket Theatre

July 11, 1808. Mr. and Mrs. Poe in an Entertainment. [page 718:]

1808-1809

BOSTON, Powell's Company at the Boston Theatre

Oct. 19, 1808. Poe as Edmund and Mrs. Poe as Cordelia in King Lear. [[Also]] Poe as Captain Hartwell in The Prize.

Oct. 26. Poe as Montano in Othello. Also, Captain Le Brush in The Register Office.

Nov. 4. Mrs. Poe sings “Nobody Coming to Marry Me.”

Nov. 9. Mrs. Poe in “A Favorite Song.”

Nov. 14. Poe as Carlton and Mrs. Poe as Arabella in Mrs. Cowley's More Ways Than One.

Nov. 16. Poe as Henry in Speed the Plough.

Nov. 18. Mrs. Poe as Queen Dollalolla in Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great.

Nov. 23. Poe as Ennui in The Dramatist.

Dec. 2. Poe as Freeman in The Quaker's Wedding.

Dec. 5. Poe as Grist the Miller in Harlequin Dr. Faustus; or The Magician Tricked.

Dec. 7. Poe as Hephestion in Alexander the Great; or, The Rival Queens.

Dec. 9. Poe as Saunders in The Jew.

Dec. 14. Poe as Dauntless in Kenney's The World. Repeated Dec. 19 and 28.

Dec. 23. Poe as Captain Standish in The Pilgrims; or, The Landing of Our Forefathers at Plymouth Rock. Repeated Jan. 2, 1809.

Jan. 4, 1809. Poe as Leczinsky and Mrs. Poe as a Peasant in The Brazen Mask; or, Alberto and Rosabella.

Jan. 6. Mr. Poe as Virolet in The Mountaineers. Also Poe and Mrs. Poe in The Brazen Mask as on Jan. 4.

Jan. 9. Poe as Leonard Melmouth in Reynolds’ Folly as it Flies. Also The Brazen Mask, same cast as on Jan. 4.

Jan. 13. Poe as Duke of Medina in Beaumont and Fletcher's Rule A Wife and Have A Wife. Also The Brazen Mask, same cast as on Jan. 4.

Jan. 16. Poe as Dauntless in The World.

Jan. 18. Poe as Lover in Don Juan.

Jan. 20. The Brazen Mask. Poe as Leczinsky and Mrs. Poe [?] as a Peasant. [Announced in Gazette of Jan. 19.] See p. 30 for explanation.

Jan. 25. Poe as Belmour in Jane Shore.

Jan. 27. Poe as Theodore in The Purse; or, Benevolent Tar.

Feb. 3. Poe as Belville in Garrick's alteration from Wycherley's The Country Wife. [page 719:]

Feb. 10. Poe as Contarino and Mrs. Poe as Rosamonda in Abaellino, the Great Bandit.

Feb. 15. Mrs. Poe as Emily in Kenney's False Alarms. Repeated Feb. 24.

Feb. 22. Mrs. Poe as Antonia in Dibdin's Two Faces Under a Hood. Also, Charlotte in The Apprentice.

March 6. Mrs. Poe as Marcella in A Bold Stroke for a Husband.

March 15. Mrs. Poe as Christina in Gustavus Vasa.

March 17. Mrs. Poe as Female Volunteer in “A Military Interlude.”

March 20. Mrs. Poe as Rachael in Colman's Feudal Times.

March 24. Mrs. Poe as Emma in Colman's We Fly by Night. Repeated April 3.

April 5. Mrs. Poe as Palmyra in Voltaire's Mahomet to Payne's Zaphna.

April 7. Mrs. Poe as Juliet to Payne's Romeo.

April 10. Mrs. Poe as Irene in John Brown's Barbarossa, to Payne's Achmet (Selim).

April 14. Mrs. Poe as Sigismunda to Payne's Tancred in James Thomson's Tancred and Sigismunda.

April 17. Payne's Benefit. Poe as Laertes and Mrs. Poe as Ophelia to Payne's Hamlet.

April 19. Benefit of Mrs. Poe. Poe as Alonzo and Mrs. Poe as Cora in Pizarro to Payne's Rolla. Also, Poe as Darina and Mrs. Poe as Abdalla in Il Bondocani.

April 21. Poe as Laertes and Mrs. Poe as Ophelia in Hamlet.

April 24. Mrs. Poe as Marianne in The Miser.

April 26. Mrs. Poe as a Female Volunteer. Repetition of March 17.

May 5. Mrs. Poe as Cordelia in King Lear.

May 10. Mrs. Poe as Marianna in Fennell's Lindor and Clara.

May 12. Mrs. Poe as Miss Marchmont in Kelly's False Delicacy.

1809-1810

NEW YORK, Price and Cooper's Company at The Park Theatre

SOURCES: Personal search in New York Commercial Advertiser and New York Evening Post, checked by C. C. D. Odell's Annals of the New York Stage, Vol. II; The Ramblers’ Magazine and New-York Theatrical Register, for the Season of 1809-10, Vol. I. Dunlap's History of the American Theatre, Vol. II.

Sept. 6, 1809. Poe as Hassan and Mrs. Poe as Angela in M. G. Lewis's The Castle Spectre. Also, Captain Sightly and Priscilla Tomboy in The Romp.

Sept. 8. Poe as Davilla, Mrs. Poe as Cora in Pizarro. Also, Captain Belleville and Rosina in Rosina. [page 720:]

Sept. 11. Poe as Rosencranz and Bernardo, Mrs. Poe as Ophelia to Cooper's Hamlet. Also, Eugene and Laura in Arnold's The Agreeable Surprise.

Sept. 13. Poe as Sanchio in Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, and Lindorf in Prince Hoare's Is He a Prince?

Sept. 15. Poe as First Robber and Mrs. Poe as Morgiana in The Forty Thieves; Is He a Prince? repeated.

Sept. 18. Poe as Falieri and Mrs. Poe as Rosamonda to Cooper's Abaellino. Also Poe as Captain Sightly, Mrs. Poe as Priscilla Tomboy in The Romp.

Sept. 20. Same parts as on Sept. 15 in Forty Thieves.

Sept. 22. Poe as Julian, Mrs. Poe as Imma in M. G. Lewis's Adelgitha.

Sept. 25. Mrs. Poe as Desdemona; also Poe as Captain Sightly, Mrs. Poe as Priscilla Tomboy in The Romp.

Sept. 27. Poe as Alonzo in Pizarro; also Poe as Eugene and Mrs. Poe as Laura in The Agreeable Surprise, repetition of Sept. 11.

Sept. 29. Poe as Malcolm in Macbeth, also Poe as Almarick and Mrs. Poe as Elisena in Thomas Dibdin's Princess and No Princess; or, The Forest of Hermanstadt.

Oct. 2. Poe as Ratcliff and Mrs. Poe as the Prince [Edward] in Richard III. Also Poe as Almarick and Mrs. Poe as Elisena, as on September 29.

Oct. 4. Bertha in Charles Kemble's The Point of Honor. Forty Thieves repeated, no cast given.

Oct. 6. Poe as Amos in Mrs. Inchbald's To Marry or Not to Marry. [[Also]] Mrs. Poe as Phoebe Whitethorn in The Wags of Windsor.

Oct. 9. Poe as Amos, repetition of Oct. 6. Poe as Almerick and Mrs. Poe as Elisena, repetition of Sept. 29.

Oct. 11. Poe as Amos. Poe as First Robber and Mrs. Poe as Morgiana; both repetitions.

Oct. 13. Poe as Julian and Mrs. Poe as Imma in Adelgitha. Mrs. Poe as Josephine in Children of the Wood.

Oct. 16. Poe as Virolet in The Mountaineers. Poe as First Robber and Mrs. Poe as Morgiana, repetition.

Oct. 18. Poe as Capt. Cypress in Richard Leigh's Grieving's a Folly. [His last appearance on the stage.] Mrs. Poe as Josephine in Children in the Wood.

Oct. 20. Mrs. Poe as a Fisherwoman in Don Juan, Repeated Nov. 15.

Oct. 25. Little Pickle in The Spoiled Child.

Oct. 27. Rosina in Rosina.

Nov. 1. Jessica in The Merchant of Venice.

Nov. 3. [Charlotte] in Fielding's Mock Doctor. Repeated Nov. 8.

Nov. 4. [Little Pickle.] [page 721:]

Nov. 6. Mrs. Poe as Zamora (Eugenio) in Tobin's Honeymoon. Also [Priscilla Tomboy].

Nov. 11. Emma in We Fly By Night. Repeated Dec. 1.

Nov. 17. Laura in Lock and Key.

Nov. 18. Peggy in Raising the Wind.

Nov. 20. Parisatis in Lee's Alexander the Great; or, The Rival Queens.

Nov. 22. Imma in Adelgitha; repetition of September 22.

Nov. 24. Prince of Wales in Richard III.

Nov. 25. Judith in The Young Quaker.

Nov. 27. Rosabelle in The Foundling of the Forest. Repeated Nov. 29, Dec. 1, 22 [no cast].

Dec. 1. Emma in We Fly By Night.

Dec. 2. Elisena in Princess and No Princess.

Dec. 6. Teresa in M. G. Lewis's Venoni. Repeated Dec. 8, 15, 28.

Dec. 8. Dolly Bull in John Bull at Fontainbleau.

Dec. 11. Cora in Pizarro. Also Dolly Bull.

Dec. 13. Rosabelle in Foundling of the Forest, and Margaretta in No Song No Supper.

Dec. 18. Miss Ogle in The Belle's Stratagem. [Dolly Bull.]

Dec. 26. Lucy in George Barnwell.

Jan. 12, 1810. Miss Ogle in Belle's Stratagem. Repeated Jan. 15.

The Park Theatre was closed from January 16 to February 22, 1810.

Feb. 23. Rosabelle and Dolly Bull repeated.

Feb. 28. Miss Ogle and [Little Pickle] repeated.

March 2. Rosabelle repeated. Peggy in Raising the Wind.

March 5. Cora in Pizarro to Payne's Rolla.

March 7. Ophelia to Payne's Hamlet.

March 9. Juliet to Payne's Romeo. Peggy in Raising the Wind, repeated also on April 4.

March 12. The Widow Bellair in Allingham's The Widow, or, Who Wins? Repeated March 23.

March 14. Margaretta in No Song No Supper.

March 19. Elisena in Princess and No Princess, repeated. Dorothy in Reynolds’ Laugh When You Can.

March 21. Miss Godfrey in Foote's The Lyar.

March 26. Lucetta in Hoadly's The Suspicious Husband. Also, Genevieve in The Hunter of the Alps.

March 28. Cherry in Beaux Stratagem. Phoebe Whitethorn in Wags of Windsor.

April 6. Genevieve in Hunter of the Alps, repeated.

April 11. Juliet to Dwyer's Romeo. [page 722:]

April 16. Leonora in Two Strings to Your Bow; or, A Servant with Two Masters.

The Theatre was closed April 18 to April 27.

April 27. Catharine in Reynolds’ The Exile. Repeated May 7.

May 4. Biddy Bellair.

May 9. Rosabelle in Foundling of the Forest, repeated.

May 14. Imma in Adelgitha; repeated.

May 16. Eliza in Riches. Burges's adaptation of The City Madam.

May 23. Ophelia to Cooper's Hamlet. Emily Melville in R. C. Dallas's Not at Home.

May 25. Valeria in Coriolanus. Emily Melville repeated, also on June 4 and June 8.

May 28. Regan to Cooper's Lear. Also, Ruth in Knight's The Honest Thieves.

May 30. Parisatis in Alexander the Great. Ruth repeated.

June 6. Zamora in Honeymoon.

June 8. Catharine in The Exile.

June 11. Taffline in Town and Country.

June 13. Ulrica in Reynolds’ The Free Knights; or, The Edict of Charlemagne.

June 15. Josephine in Children of the Wood, repeated.

June 18. Edward in Mrs. Inchbald's Every One Has His Fault.

June 20. Mrs. Poe sings “Nobody Coming to Marry Me.” [As a part of a long series of songs by the Company.]

June 22. Laura in The Agreeable Surprise.

June 25. Rosabelle in The Foundling of the Forest. Virginia in Paul and Virginia.

June 29. Rosa in Reynolds’ The Caravan.

July 2. Benefit of Mrs. Poe. Rosamonda in Abaellino. Narcissa in Colman's Inkle and Yarico.

July 4. Ulrica in The Free Knights and Rosa in The Caravan.

1810

RICHMOND, Placide's Company at the Richmond Theatre

SOURCES: Search in newspapers as above.

Aug. 18, 1810. Mrs. Poe as Angela in The Castle Spectre; Maria in Of Age Tomorrow.

Aug. 24. Florence in Tobin's The Curfew; Emma Bastion in Colman's We Fly By Night. [page 723:]

Sept. 11. Little Pickle.

Sept. 21. Mrs. Poe's Benefit. [Letitia Hardy] in The Belle's Stratagem. Song by Mrs. Poe. Also, Allemande in Act 8 of A Masquerade.

1811

CHARLESTON, Placide's Company at Charleston Theatre

SOURCES: Search in Charleston Courier, as before.

Jan. 23, 1811. Angela in The Castle Spectre; Priscilla Tomboy in The Romp.

Jan. 28. Jacintha in Hoadley's The Suspicious Husband. Repeated March 9.

Jan. 30. Louisa Courtney in The Dramatist. Also, Little Pickle.

Feb. 1. Maria in Of Age Tomorrow. Repeated Feb. 20, March 1, May 7.

Feb. 4. Nymph in Telemachus. Repeated April 3.

Feb. 6. Rosina in Rosina. Repeated Feb. 8.

Feb. 9. Leonora in The Padlock.

Feb. 15. Lydia Languish in The Rivals. Also, Melissa in Garrick's The Lying Valet, repeated April 24.

Feb. 16. Agnes in Colman's The Mountaineers. Repeated Feb. 27.

Feb. 22. Letitia Hardy in The Belle's Stratagem. Josephine in The Children in the Wood.

Feb. 25. Lady Eleanor in Mrs. Inchbald's Every One Has His Fault.

Feb. 26. Susan Ashfield in Morton's Speed the Plough. Also, Louisa in The Irishman in London.

Feb. 27. Kitty in Ways and Means.

March 2. Lady Teazle in School for Scandal.

March 4. Jane in Wild Oats. Also, Miss Grantam in The Lyar.

March 6. Caroline Dormer in The Heir at Law.

March 9. Dimity in Three Weeks After Marriage.

March 13. Ismena in The Sultan.

March 15. Molly Maybush in O’Keeffe's The Farmer.

March 20. Rosabelle in The Foundling of the Forest. Repeated March 27. Also, Florella in Prince Hoare's My Grandmother.

March 21. At St. Cecelia's Society Concert Room. Song, “When Ruddy Aurora.”

March 23. Christine in Tekeli.

March 25. Laura in The Agreeable Surprise. Repeated March 29.

March 27. Margaretta in No Song No Supper.

April 1. Mopsa in A Winter's Tale. Repeated April 17. [page 724:]

April 3. A Savoyard in The Stranger. (Sings.) Nymph in Telemachus.

April 15. Flora in Mrs. Inchbald's The Midnight Hour. Also, Dolly O’Daisy in Pocock's Hit or Miss. Also, Columbine in Whim Upon Whim.

April 16. At Sollee's Concert Room. Two songs by Mrs. Poe.

April 17. Donna Clara in Robert Jephson's Two Strings to Your Bow.

April 19. Francisca in Don Juan.

April 22. Nerissa in The Merchant of Venice. Also, Sally in Cross's The Purse.

April 26. “A Grace” in Cinderella.

April 29. Mrs. Poe's Benefit. Violante in The Wonder. Also, Lady (with a song) in Hurry Scurry. Also, Moggy McGilpin in The Highland Reel.

May 2. Fanny in Arnold's Man and Wife. Also, Irene in Blue Beard.

May 7. Nancy Joblin in W. C. White's The Poor Lodger; Maria, in Of Age Tomorrow; Columbine in pantomime.

May 14. Albina in The Grandfather's Will. Also, Nancy in T. C. Cross's Blackbeard, The Pirate.

May 16. Floribel in Dimond's The Doubtful Son. Nancy as on May 14.

May 18. A Song.

May 20. Emma in The Birthday. Almeida in Blackbeard. Lucy in The Review; or, The Wags of Windsor.

NORFOLK, Placide's Company at the Norfolk Theatre

July 26, 1811. Benefit of Mrs. Poe and Miss Thomas. [Donna Violante] in The Wonder. [Leonora] in The Padlock.

RICHMOND, Placide's Company at The Richmond Theatre. Season opened Aug. 16. A number of plays in which Mrs. Poe had acted are announced but no casts are given at first.

SOURCES: Richmond newspapers, as before, especially The Patriot.

Sept. 20, 1811. Mrs. Poe as one of the “Graces” in Cinderella.

Sept. 25. Bridget in Charles Kemble's Budget of Blunders.

Sept. 27. Emily Bloomfield in Dr. Ioor's The Battle of Eutaw.

Oct. 9. Mrs. Poe's benefit. Her name does not appear on the bills. She may have played her old parts, [Parisatis] in Alexander the Great; [Lydia] in Love Laughs at Locksmiths.

Oct. 11. Countess Wintersen in The Stranger.

[Her last appearance on the stage.]


[[Footnotes]]

[The following footnote appears at the bottom of page 706:]

(1)  Woodberry, Appendix, I, 360, states that Mrs. Hopkins was in Petersburg, Virginia, November 20-December 7, 1802, but gives no plays or casts. I can find no file of newspapers of Petersburg for those dates in Petersburg, Richmond, or any other depository. Scattered issues give no references to Mrs. Hopkins. They were probably playing, however, as The Petersburg Republican for Dec. 7, 1802, gives Hopkins in a recitation.


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Notes:

In the original, the section title is given in all capitals. For the sake of conformity, it has been rendered here in upper and lower case.

As an addenda to this article, see “Two Unrecorded Notices of Poe’s Parents” by C. E. Frazer Clark, Jr. (Poe Studies, December 1971, vol. IV, no. 2, 4:37).


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