£320
John Galsworthy (1867-1933), novelist and playwright, Nobel prize winner for literature 1932, handwritten letters dated 1911 and 1913, addressed to Miss Eleanor Elder; one with thanks and plans to visit London; one saying how much 'we enjoyed your performance the other night'; and one apologising that 'there won't be anything in "Strife" available', each with envelope. Also in the lot is a signed letter on Midland Hotel, Manchester headed notepaper, dated November 1911, handwritten to Miss Elder. (7).
FOOTNOTE:
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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