Expense account for a dramatic performance of Uncle Tom's Cabin, one page, 7.75 x 6.25, October 14, 1853. The account, totaling 29 cents, is for sarsaparilla, cigars, apples, raisins, cork, and cake for John Taylor. In very good to fine condition, with light creasing and soiling, and old adhesive residue on the back.
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or Life Among the Lowly by Harriet Beecher Stowe was first published serially in the National Era, an anti-slavery paper based in Washington D.C. Despite Stowe's name becoming anathema in the South, the book was received with such unparalleled popularity that at least 23 translations were done. It was also adapted for the stage and played to capacity audiences. In the summer of 1852, two dramatic adaptations were made in Boston and New York, reaping fantastic profits.
