Autograph Collection.- Authors, Journalists & Actors

Autograph Collection.- Authors, Journalists & Actors

A very large collection of letters, notes, clipped signatures and papers related to various writers, journalists, musicians and actors, including: Ouida (pen name of Maris Louise Rame); Laurence Housman (typed verses, with handwritten corrections initialled L.H.); Arthur Wing Pinero (typed letter saying "It will be impossible for me to get to the Comedy Theatre on Monday", 9 January 1895) George du Maurier (1834-1896) writer and cartoonist; Richard Dimbleby (typed note); Arthur Christiansen (typed letter about "writing a biography of Roy Thomson", 5 July 1962); Bonamy Dobree (typed note to P.S. Jones, saying in part "I should have saved myself a great deal of trouble if I had been a little more careful and had said Coleridge's version of Johnson's famous parody", 28 September 1934); Wilhelmina Stitch; Ernest Raymond; James Stern (group of handwritten and typed notes); Leopold Maxse (typed letter to Douglas Murray, reading in part "The observation to which you refer was intended to emphasise the economic value of India to the Empire, as it called attention to the little known fact that at the present moment India is our principal granary", 10 January 1905); James Reeves; Robert Williams Buchanan (ordering some volume from a catalogue); Sir Frederick Wedmore (two letters regarding contracts and performing rights, 19 and 20 July 1898); H. V. Morton (brief autograph note); an archive of letters to Emil Juel-Fredriksen, Danish composer and organist; a small assortment of autographs, signed letters, photographs, engravings and clipped signatures including: a letter Thomas Sheridan, son of Richard Brinsley Sheridan; Anna Neagle; Gerald du Maurier (signed card); Seymour Hicks (brief autograph note asking for some theatre seats); William A Brady; Florence St John; Julia Neilson Terry; Madge Kendal; W H Kendal; Herbert Beerbohm Tree (signed photograph); a letter to William Wyld from the French Imperial Ministry of Fine Arts dated 1861; William Lee Hankey (original artwork for the menu for the second Annual Dinner of the London Sketch Club, May 26th 189); Henry William Banks Davis (signed note); small archive of items relating to painter Samuel West (c.1810-1881) and his family (qty); Lord Frederick Leighton (clipped signature); Constance Phillott (autograph note); David Shepherd (signed photograph), and a small collection of engravings and watercolours, v.s., 19th-20th century (large quantity)

the box 31 x 9 x 40cm