IRVING HENRY Group of 6 items Two Photographs Signed and Ins

Sale 2446 - Lot 144

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IRVING, HENRY. Group of 6 items: Two Photographs Signed and Inscribed * Two Autograph Letters Signed * Letter Signed * Autograph Manuscript, unsigned. The photographs, each a cabinet card bust portrait, the second by Window & Grove showing him in profile wearing suit. Each inscribed in the image, the first vertically. Each 5 3/4x3 1/4 (image), 6 1/2x4 1/4 overall; some fading to signature and text of first. The letters, to various recipients, the first in the hand of Bram Stoker declining an invitation from the Clover Club. Together 6 pages, 8vo; condition generally good. The manuscript, draft of a speech delivered by him at the Grand Theater in 1891, in ink and pencil. 4 pages, 8vo, "Lyceum Theatre" stationery; moderate scattered soiling. (MRS) Vp, 1881-94

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Speech: ". . . When Sadlers Wells was under the epoch making management of Saml. Phelps, I used as a boy . . . to push & squeeze my way into the pit of that theatre & I am able therefore to realise the pleasure . . . which many of you must have had . . . .
"Certainly if one may judge by the reception given to the M. of V. your love for Shakespere is as keen now as it was in those days . . . ."