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Harley Granville-Barker (1877-1946), English actor, producer, and critic, handwritten and signed letter on Garrick Club headed paper, addressed to Eleanor Elder. Along with a typed letter to the same addressee, dated April 1913, signed by Arnold Bennett (1867-1931), British novelist, playwright, critic, and essayist. (2).
FOOTNOTES:
Granville Barker and Eleanor Elder worked together on the production of Iphigenia in Tauris (1912) and possibly others.
Eleanor Elder was an Actor, dancer, producer, founder and manager of the Arts League of Service Travelling Theatre. She trained with F. R. Benson’s Shakespearean Company, before joining Margaret Morris’s dance troupe. The outbreak of war took her to India where she organised entertainments for the Red Cross. When she returned to the UK she established the ALS.
PROVENANCE:
Letter sourced from the property adjoining Lobswood House, originally called ‘Black Lake Cottage’, the summer retreat of author Sir JM Barrie from 1901 to 1908, the years in which he created Peter Pan and where Barrie entertained his cricketing friends (many of whom are well known authors and playwrights) and the Llewelyn Davies family.
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