Apr 22, 2010 - Sale 2211

Sale 2211 - Lot 25

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
BARRIE, JAMES MATTHEW. Letter Signed with holograph closing, "Yours Sincerely / J.M. Barrie," to the actress Joan Harben, congratulating her on winning an Academy Gold Medal and commenting on her mother, the actress Mary Jerrold. 1 page, small 8vo, "Adelphi Terrace House" stationery; horizontal fold. With the original envelope . London, 19 May 1927

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with--three items: three-page satirical self-critique of his new play ("Mary Rose") written and signed by a secretary, beginning "I, the undersigned, to be henceforth called the above-mentioned, do hereby acknowledge receipt of bomb from the Haymarket Co, to be henceforth called the said conspirators. . . ." [London], 15 October 1920. With the original envelope, addressed to Mary Jerrold at the Haymarket Theater Carbon copy of a typed copy of the critique Typed Letter Signed from Frederick Harrison to Mary Jerrold, confirming the terms under which she was to be engaged for the new Barrie play. "Haymarket Theatre," 10 March 1920.