BIB_ID
298774
Accession number
MA 7646.5
Creator
Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965.
Display Date
[ca. 1913] March 16.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.8 cm
Notes
Dating: Letter is undated, but "1913?" is penciled in an unknown hand in the upper right corner. The Land of Promise was staged in December, 1913, and February, 1914.
Part of a collection of 12 letters from W. Somerset Maugham to the director Dion Boucicault (MA 7646.1-9) and his wife Irene Vanbrugh (MA 7646.10-12). Letters have been individually described in 12 catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Written on stationery embossed "6, Chesterfield Street, W."
Part of a collection of 12 letters from W. Somerset Maugham to the director Dion Boucicault (MA 7646.1-9) and his wife Irene Vanbrugh (MA 7646.10-12). Letters have been individually described in 12 catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Written on stationery embossed "6, Chesterfield Street, W."
Provenance
Purchased by Gordon N. Ray from the London dealer Ifan Kyrle Fletcher.
Summary
Asking to see the "plot of the various acts of The Land of Promise." Signed "W. S. Maugham."
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