BIB_ID
430762
Accession number
MA 1617.126
Creator
Crichton, Haldane, 1852-1938.
Display Date
Stalybridge, England, 1883 January 10.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.0 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Henley granted Crichton the provincial rights for one year to produce "Deacon Brodie', a play Henley co-authored with Robert Louis Stevenson.
Written from the "Victoria Theatre / Stalybridge."
Housed with a letter from Mitchell & Baxter, W.S. to W. E. Henley dated 7 December 1882 and with a copy of a letter from Baxter to Crichton of the same date confirming the terms of the agreement of Henley and Stevenson with Haldane Crichton (MA 1617.131).
This letter is one of fourteen letters written by Haldane Crichton to W.E. Henley and/or R. L. Stevenson included in the Henley collection (MA 1617.117-131).
Written from the "Victoria Theatre / Stalybridge."
Housed with a letter from Mitchell & Baxter, W.S. to W. E. Henley dated 7 December 1882 and with a copy of a letter from Baxter to Crichton of the same date confirming the terms of the agreement of Henley and Stevenson with Haldane Crichton (MA 1617.131).
This letter is one of fourteen letters written by Haldane Crichton to W.E. Henley and/or R. L. Stevenson included in the Henley collection (MA 1617.117-131).
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Summary
Saying "I have just had an insulting letter from your solicitors, calling in question - for the first time in my life - my honesty. As soon as I have recovered my equanimity, I will write you more fully. I certainly thought from your letters etc that you were going to have some posters cut (it is commonly done by authors) however let me have the designs & I must put them in hand. There is little time to spare. No one will have piece without pictures."
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