BIB_ID
298784
Accession number
MA 7646.10
Creator
Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965.
Display Date
[1908 or later].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 16.9 cm
Notes
Dating: Letter is undated, but "ca. 1912 (Mrs. Dot)" is penciled in an unknown hand in the upper right corner. Mrs. Dot was first staged in 1908.
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 "Hotel Adlon, Berlin W. / Unter den Linden 1 / am Pariser Platz."
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 "Hotel Adlon, Berlin W. / Unter den Linden 1 / am Pariser Platz."
Provenance
Purchased by Gordon N. Ray from the London dealer Ifan Kyrle Fletcher.
Summary
Regretting that he cannot lunch with her that day as he is in Berlin. Playfully referring to her husband as Monsieur Dot, and suggesting that they come to Berlin. Discussing a recent production of a Tolstoy play, noting "it is the best thing I have ever seen." Signed "W. S. Maugham."
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