Articles on Lydia Thompson divorce case

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Record Information

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Published

Last Updated:
8 January 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

05 Apr 1870
07 Apr 1870
08 Apr 1870
16 Apr 1870

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Lydia [actress] Thompson

Citations

1)
Article: New York Herald, 05 April 1870, 4.

Brief article describing Lydia Thompson’s involvement in a divorce case in London, her connection with a married man by the name of Watkins being proven and used as evidence against him.

2)
Article: New York Herald, 07 April 1870, 7.

Lydia Thompson replies to the New York Herald article of 04/05/70: “A paragraph appears in this morning’s [April 5] issue of your paper, credited to the London Globe, in which my name is made us of as being involved in a certain divorce suit of Watkins vs. Watkins. The assertion is a false and malicious slander, and it is simply sufficient for me to state that I know nothing of the case in question, and I do not now, and never did know, any person by the name of Watkins. LYDIA THOMPSON.”

3)
Article: New York Herald, 08 April 1870, 7.

Additional response by Thompson, including an affidavit.

4)
: New York Clipper, 16 April 1870, 14.

Part of the “City Summary.”