Autograph Letter Signed, Baltimore April 6, 1853 to Thomas McKeon

quarto, one page, in very good clean condition. Jarrett writes from the Baltimore Museum declining the addition of specimens for his Museum. Jarrett writes that the “services of a Juvenali Man have already been secured for next season,” and continues: “We can do nothing for the “Belgian Giant” as he would not draw a dollar at our establishment. We play no star’s at our establishment but those of the 1st Class, by the way, when did Jack Weaver loom up as a star.” Jarrett began his career as an actor in amateur theatricals in his native Baltimore, then in 1851 he purchased the Baltimore Museum and four years later assumed the management of Washington’s National Theatre. In 1861 Jarrett added the new Brooklyn Academy of Music to his roster of theaters and in 1864 the Boston Theater. He brought the “Parisienne Ballet Troupe” to New York for an engagement, but the ballerinas ended up being in The Black Crook (1866), a milestone in the history of the American musical theater. At the same time Jarrett took over the management of Niblo’s Garden, then in 1874 he joined A. M. Palmer to take over the Booth Theater, and to produce plays, including a highly successful revival of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. He retired to England in the mid 1880’s.