WILDE OSCAR Autograph Note Signed to theater manager and pla

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TO WILSON BARRETT: "ALLOW ME TO SEE YOUR LATEST TRIUMPH" WILDE, OSCAR. Autograph Note Signed, to theater manager and playwright Wilson Barrett ("Dear Mr. Barrett"): "If there is a box vacant tonight for the Silver King I would be so much obliged if you would allow me to see your latest triumph." 1 page, small 4to; moderate marginal discoloration from prior matting, moderate scattered foxing, paper label mounted at upper edge recto, hinging remnants at upper and left edges verso, folds. [London, circa 1882]

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Wilson Barrett's production of The Silver King by Henry Arthur Jones and Henry Herman premiered at the Princess's Theater in London on November 16, 1882.