TARKINGTON BOOTH Autograph Letter Signed to actor Edward Fie

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TARKINGTON, BOOTH. Autograph Letter Signed, to actor Edward Fielding ("Dear Fielding"), explaining that there are no available parts for him among his current and upcoming plays. 2 pages, small 8vo, personal stationery, written on the first and terminal pages of a folded sheet; horizontal fold. Indianapolis, 4 January 1916

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"There was nothing you'd have wanted to do in 'The Ohio Lady,' I'm sure; nor will there be anything in a play of mine [Otis] Skinner is to do next year. These two are all I have for the present.
"But you may be sure that I do not forget 'Brean.' I know other work of yours, too, and have seen you play very different parts. . . ."
Edward Fielding played Knollingsworth Brean in Tarkington's Your Humble Servant, which opened at the Garrick theater in New York on January 3, 1910.