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Estimate: $ 80 - $ 120
(THEATER.) Group of 6 items Signed, or Signed and Inscribed, to Natalie or John Hays Hammond: George Arliss (5) * Walter Hampden. Format and condition vary. Vp, vd
Arliss: PS and Inscribed, "To Natalie Hammond / With special regards," half-length portrait by Pach Bros., showing him wearing monocle in 3/4-view. Inscribed in the image, lower center. 9x7 inches. Np, April 1927 ALS, to John Hays Hammond, thanking him for complements about Disraeli and remarking that President Taft had seen it and met him on the occasion. 2 pages, 8vo, written on two sheets. London, nd Three Typed Letters Signed, to John Hays Hammond, joking that changes in motion pictures [dominance of "talkies"?] may cause him to apply to him for employment, arranging a meeting, discussing his own unsuitability for a role in a film by Cecil Rhodes. Together 4 pages, 4to, personal stationery. Burbank, 13 March; New York, 13 October 1933; [London], 18 April 1935. Hampden: Autograph Quotation Signed and Inscribed, "To Miss Natalie Hays Hammond," 6 lines beginning, "Thus conscience does make cowards of us all . . . ." 3x7 1/2 inches; mounted. Np, nd.
