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Excerpt from Henry Irving's Impressions of America: Narrated in a Series of Sketches, Chronicles, and Conversations
This book is the outcome of a desire to chronicle, in a lasting form, some of the events of a tour which your kindness has made a delight to Ellen Terry and myself. Before leaving London I ventured upon a prophecy that in journeying to America. We were going amongst friends. That prophecy has been fulfilled.
In the history of the stage the Lyceum Company is the first complete organization which has crossed the Atlantic with the entire equipment of a theatre.
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