Enthoven

[Gabrielle Enthoven, playwright, amateur actress, theatre archivist etc] Typed Note Signed boldly Gabrielle Enthoven to Frank Gielgud, father of John Gielgud, overrated actor, praising a book he had presented to her collection.

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Gabrielle Enthoven (1868 -1950), playwright, amateur actress, theatre archivist, and prolific collector of theatrical ephemera relating to the London stage.
Publication details: 
Victoria and Albert Museum, E.I. D. Dept. South Kensington, SW7, 31 October 1932.
£100.00

One page, 4to, fold mark, good condition. Text: Thank you so very much for the really adorable little book 'Theatrical Ashes' bound with the wood from the burnt Covent Garden Stage which you have presented to my collection. | It is a most valuable little memento and I shall show it in the Covent Garden exhibition which is going to take place here in December. | It is so kind of you to think of my collection. See Image.

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Typed letter signed to Mrs [?] Enthoven,

Author: 
Hugh Beaumont
Publication details: 
17 September 1943, on letterhead of H. M. Tennent Ltd.
£25.00

Theatre producer (1908-1973). "Thank you so much for your letter. I entirely appreciate your difficulties and I am most grateful to you. I hope that L. E. Berman can let me have the original manuscript as I should be most grateful. / I am sorry you have not received the photographs as promised and I will look into this immediately." Not in the best of condition: creased and grubby.

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