[SHAW (Bernard)] - HARRIS (Frank).-Livre Rare Book
Small Archive Three Letters from Joseph Norton Ireland Offering to Sell His Collection to Fellow Theater Historian Douglas Taylor
189844775Bridgeport CT 1898. Very good indents and remnants of paperclips along top edges minor soling to folds on versos contents clean. 4 pp. 5 x 8 inches. Three letters from theater historian and biographer Joseph Norton Ireland to collector and biographer Douglas Taylor .<br /> <br /> 1. Letter dated December 8th 1897. 1 pp. Ireland tells Taylor of the decline in his physical and mental faculties before he summarizes his collection which includes the Treasurer's books of the Old Park Theater portraits & photographs of performers and bound sets of playbills. Finally he offers a nearly complete set of John Boydell's Shakespeare engravings for the amount of $40.<br /> <br /> 2. Letter dated December 16th 1897. 2 pp.Taylor clearly wanted the Boydell engravings as Ireland's second letter was sent with an enclosed return check to Taylor who had overpaid for the set. "I return your check for $40 as I think you misunderstand my writing 'I would see all for that amount' I then referred to the Shakespeare engravings which were at the close of my letter the small ones and the large ones and I meant to say I would sell them all large & small for that amount. I think the whole collection is worth rather more than that." <br /> <br /> 3. Letter dated March 4th 1898. 1 pp. Contains a short list of Ireland's collection of autograph letters all bound which he suspects "will be of little use" to Taylor.<br /> <br /> Ioseph Norton Ireland 1817-1898 wrote "Records of the New York Stage from 1750-1860 1866; "Mrs. Duff" 1882; and "A memoir of the professional life of Thomas Abthorpe Cooper" 1888.<br /> <br /> Douglas Taylor 1830-1913 was president of the Dunlap Society whose own biographical works included "Autobiography of Clara Fisher Maeder" 1897 and "Autobiographical sketch of Mrs. John Drew" 1899. unknown
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