Interesting collection of letters, mainly to the actor Seymour Hicks and his wife Ellaline Terriss, bound together in a volume titled to the spine - Letters to Seymour Hicks
In total there are 45 items all mounted on guards along the left edge, most with creasing and light browning:
1. Seymour Hicks bookplate
2. Printed card sent out for the birth of Betty Hicks Jan 16th 1905
3. Letter from Squire Bancroft Jun 27 1898 [actor 1841-1926]
4. William Pett Ridge [novelist, 1859 - 1930]
5. Letty Lind [Letitia Elizabeth Rudge, actress, 1861 - 1923]
6. Martin [?] 1911
7. Johnston Forbes Robertson 1894 [actor + theatre manager 1853 - 1937]
8. Madge Kendall 1909 [Dear Ellaline] [actress, 1848 - 1935]
9. [GJT?] 1918
10. Wilson Barrett 1882 [actor + playwright, 1844 - 1925] Dear Small
11. Edward Terry 1889 [actor + theatre owner, 1844 - 1912] Dear Small
12. [?]
13. Edward German 1903 [Dear Miss Ellaline Terriss] [composer, 1862 - 1936]
14. H Granville Barker [theatre director + playwright, 1877 - 1946]
15. Anthony Hope Hawkins 1899 [author of the prisoner of Zenda, 1863 - 1933]
16. HJ Byron 1883 [Dear Tom] [playwright + actor 1835 - 1884]
17. Herbert Beerbohm Tree 1893 [actor + theatre manager 1852 - 1917]
18. JI Toole [My dear Parry] [actor + theatre manager 1830 - 1906]
19. David James[?] 1883 [Dear Tom] [actor 1839 - 1893]
20. Francis Cowley Burnand 1883 [My dear Mr Small] [playwright 1836 - 1917]
21. Madge Kendall [Dear Little Lady]
22. Anthony Hope Hawkins 1904 - some silver fish damage to the edge + browning
23. Gwen [?]
24. Martin Harvey[?] 1911 [actor + theatre manager 1863 - 1944]
25. William Gillette 1901 [Dear Child] [actor 1853 - 1937]
26. [?] 1903
27. Charles Wyndham [actor + theatre manager 1837 - 1919]
28. Sidney Jones [composer 1861 - 1946]
29. Louis Greig [on Buckingham Palace notepaper] [1880 - 1953
30. Maude B Tree [My dear Mrs Hicks] [1863 - 1937, actress wife of HB Tree
31. Evy 1919
32. Evy 1919
33. Dion Boucicault 1911 [actor 1859 - 1929] [typed letter signed, torn]
34. Cora Brown Potter [actress 1857 - 1936]
35. FC Burnand 1899 [Now my dear Boucicault]
36. Burnham 1913 Daily telegraph embossed stamp
37. Martin Harvey 1899
38. Arthur W Pinero 1900 typed letter signed [playwright 1855 - 1934]
39. [?] 1923 very creased
40. George Robert Sims 1899 [1847 - 1922 journalist and writer]
41. George Robert Sims [Dear Mrs Seymour Hicks]
42. Edward J Wallasey[?] 1890 [Dear Miss[?] Vanburgh]
43. Alfred Austin [poet 1835 - 1913]
44. Printed invitation to Royal Progress of Edward VII 1902, stamped coronation 12 Pall Mall East
45. Printed playbill, very browned, mounted on linen. Folded in four. Prince of Wales Theatre somewhere near Tottenham Court Road - mentions Marie Wilton, HJ Byron, Dion Boucicault, Tom Taylor,
Bound in half leather, some wear. Damp stain to front board.
It will be sent securely packed.
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