[ Jim Crow; unpublished typescript; biography ] Royalty, Jim Crow & Others. A study of T.D. Rice and his Times.

Typescript with MS. additions, Pp. [1]-88, 4to, crudely bound with wire into a brown folder, chipped, with the ownership label on front as follows: "from the collection of Ernest J. Tyrrell London". Tyrrell starts with a connection between the Twist (danced by the Queen and Prince Philip) and Jim Crow's "vigorous and exhilarating dance", and its impact in England. He explains his modus operandi, organising disparate material about the life of T. D. Rice (career in the US, then Great Britiain, "Typical allusions in Press and caricatures", and "The mysterious 'Vestris' feud" followed by "The biography of John Benjamin Dunn, Rice's most famous imitator", "Female impersonators" and "The life of J.H. Stead, Rice's lineal successor (as distinct from imitators)." The author has added manuscript corrections and additions from one word to a paragraph, with other minor editorial changes. The author has signed off at the end. A decent read. Apparently unpublished.