Just
now my head is stuffed full of amber-colored cashmere and white
satin. My mother begs to be kindly remembered to Mrs. Kemble.
Always affectionately yours,
F. A. K.
My determination to _soften_ the character of Camiola is another
indication of my imperfect comprehension of my business as an actress,
which was not to reform but to represent certain personages. Massinger's
"Maid of Honor" is a stern woman, not without a very positive grain of
coarse hardness in her nature. My attempt to _soften_ her was an
impertinent endeavor to alter his fine conception to something more in
harmony with my own ideal of womanly perfection. I was a very
indifferent actress and had not begun to understand my work, nor was Mr.
Macready far wrong when, many years after, he spoke to me as "not
knowing the rudiments of my profession."
JOURNAL, 1831.
_Thursday, April 21st._--Walked in the square, and studied Lady
Teazle. The trees are thickly clothed with leaves, and the new-mown
grass, even in the midst of London, smelt fresh and sweet; I was
quite alone in the square, and enjoyed something like a _country_
sensation.
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