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[Victorian Penny Toys] W J Macqueen-Pope [Walter James Macqueen-Pope] (1888-1960), theatre historian and press officer and archiBiblio.com

‘Re the toys which made Xmas long ago’: ‘Popie’ on Victorian penny toys. Copy of Typed Letter from theatre historian W. J. Macqueen-Pope containing a long list with some comments including toys which have ‘almost if not quite vanished’.

2404512 June 1956. No place London. For information on Macqueen-Pope see his entry in the Oxford DNB. The present item is from his papers. Unsigned carbon copy of typed letter with ‘W. Macqueen-Pope’ typed below space for signature. 2pp 4to. Sixty-one lines of text. Text clear and complete on lightly aged and creased paper with slight water stain to one edge and damage to top left-hand corner from paperclip. The letter begins: ‘My Dear John / Re the toys which made Xmas long ago. One would want a picture of the men standing shoulder to shoulder down Ludgate Hill in the gutter selling the penny toys. These they carried on trays with a support round their necks. The toys were of all sorts - a list -’. A list of thirty-two lines follows beginning: ‘Little men taking off their tall hats when a string was pulled. / Little tortoises in boxes with glass tops which waggled their legs when moved.’ Ends with: ‘Little bits of metal like aeroplane propellors sic which rose in the air when pushed up a screwed rod. / Watchmen’s rattles - yellow and red. / Bulls eye lanterns.’ The recipient has followed each entry on the list with a tiny tick in ink. Macqueen-Pope continues with twenty-three lines listing ‘toys which have almost if not quite vanished - but which cost more than a penny - some as much as sixpence’. These include: ‘Tin palm tress sic bearing cocoanuts and a nigger smwarmed sic up it caught a cocoa nut in a try on his head and came down.’ and ‘The Wheel of Life - a circular tin affair looking like a round saucepan with no handle. It had slots in the side. Into the bottom went a spike. You put rolls of paper - with illustrations inside facing inwards you twirled it round looked through the slots and the pictures moved. This was the origin of the cinema.’ Also ‘Slap bangs which went off with a satisfying bang when dropped. Scared old men and made cyclists think they had a puncture.’ Postscript: ‘White mice and pigs made of sugar. Tiger nuts - locusts. Everlasting stick’. 12 June 1956. No place [London]. unknown

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Charles Mathews (1776-1835) the elder, celebrated actor-manager, part-proprietor of the Adelphi Theatre, London, father of the aBiblio.com

‘So much for vaccination!’: Charles Mathews celebrated actor-manager. Autograph Letter Signed to ‘Harley’ distinguished actor indignant at a doctor after his son the actor Charles James Mathews’ attack of small pox following inoculation.

26344â€˜Ivy Cottage Kentish Town / Novr 25 - /28 1828â€™. See his entry and that of his son in the Oxford DNB. The topic of this letter is referred to in the second volume of Dickens's edition of the son's life 1879. 3pp 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition lightly aged with strip of tape from mount adhering at edge of blank second leaf and two folds for postage. Addressed to â€˜Dear Harleyâ€™ and signed â€˜C Mathews.â€™ He begins by thanking him for his â€˜kind enquiriesâ€™ and with regard to his son the actor Charles James Mathews writes that â€˜Our dear good Charles thank God! is recovered and writes in excellent spirits from Florence. His disorder has been small pox! So much for vaccination! for of all the victims I have ever witnessed to that system he was the greatest - as his face was covered with frightful blotches for two years after inoculation.â€™ He claims that the â€˜English Physicianâ€™ who attended the boy â€˜hand no hesitation from the first in pronouncing it to be Small Poxâ€™ but that â€˜this was concealed from usâ€™. â€˜He accounts rationally for 3 weeks of silence - namely that he was blind. â€œThe first reason will do.â€â€™ He has had â€˜irksome work to play comforter to an almost broken hearted mother - and six nights per week to mimic gladness when the heart was sadâ€™. He ends with renewed thanks for the â€˜kind note which my wife equally appreciatesâ€™. ‘Ivy Cottage [Kentish Town] / Novr 25 - /28 [1828]’. unknown

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Frederick Yates [Frederick Henry Yates] (1797-1842), actor and proprietor with Charles Mathews of the Adelphi Theatre, London, hBiblio.com

Frederick Yates actor-manager of the Adelphi Theatre. Autograph Letter Signed 'Fred. H. Yates.' accusing actor Thomas Cooke of breaking his word by mounting a production of Fitzball's 'Red Rover' whose copyright he owns outside Edinburgh.

2284818 January 1830. 'Theatre Royal Adelphi' London. 3pp 4to. Bifolium. In fair condition aged and worn with closed tears and thin vertical strip of paper on reverse of second leaf which carries a seal in black wax and Yates's address to 'T. P. Cooke Esqre. 28 Manchester Street Manchester Square'. An interesting letter regarding a Victorian stage dispute. In an understated style Yates makes a serious accusation: Cooke has broken his word over the manuscript of Fitzball's play 'The Red Rover' Yates had produced the piece with himself in the title role in 1828 and would do so again in 1831. The subtext is that by such an action Cooke is not a gentleman. It begins: 'Sir. Since you have done me the honor to address me by Letter I conceive it incumbent upon me to return you a written answer. The M S. of the Red Rover Mr Mathews & my property I allowed you to have copied upon an express understanding & pledge that you were to make use of it in the Edinboro Theatre only. Upon your refusal to comply with the terms of your Engagement here you thought proper to make use of the copy I permitted you to take of our M. S. with an additional act compiled by yourself at the Surrey Theatre - which I consider to be a positive breach of your word.' He continues in the same tone stating that he has learnt that Cooke has 'paid Mr Grove our Prompter a Guinea for making the Copy' and that Cooke is also claiming the first two acts as his property. As 'possessor of the Copyright' Yates can only return the manuscript with a 'veto that they shall only be made use of in Edinburgh' but as Cooke has 'already considered his promise as not binding' Yates does not expect him to 'pay any attention'. 18 January 1830. 'Theatre Royal | Adelphi' [London]. unknown

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