BIB_ID
128770
Accession number
MA 9434
Creator
Barrett, Wilson, 1846-1904.
Display Date
[1884] November 5.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.4 cm
Notes
The year of writing is illegible, but Barrett appeared as Hamlet at the Princess's Theatre in 1884.
On stationery with the blue embossed emblem of the Royal Princess's Theatre. Barrett is listed as the lessee and manager of the theater below the emblem.
Formerly part of a collection of thirteen letters to Joan Severn accessioned as MA 2333.
On stationery with the blue embossed emblem of the Royal Princess's Theatre. Barrett is listed as the lessee and manager of the theater below the emblem.
Formerly part of a collection of thirteen letters to Joan Severn accessioned as MA 2333.
Summary
Inviting her to see his Hamlet; referring to some lozenges: "The Professor chided me because those lozenges were nasty to the taste. Now is it fair of Ruskin to expect his physic to taste like jam?"; sending photographs of himself.
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