John Baldwin Buckstone Actor Playwright (3 results)

On 4 x 9.5 strip of paper. In good condition, with light signs of age. Reads 'Truly Yours | Jno. B Buckstone | T. Q. H'. Presumably cut from a letter in response to a request for an autograph.

8vo. 1 page. About a newspaper advert for an upcoming event: "The advertisement has been daily in 'The Times' [.] It takes place Monday next 14th inst. Tickets £ 1s 1d each. I shall be happy to send one to you on request [.]". - With traces of old mounting on the verso, a hole in the paper (no loss of text), and some slight brownstaining. Includes a newspaper clipping with an engraved portrait.

1p., 4to. 15 lines. On aged and worn paper. The letter reads 'Dear Sir/ | A general meeting of all the Dramatic Authors will take place at the Garricks head in Bow Street on Monday nexxt at One o'Clock. Can you continue to come among us?, as it is for the purpose of making some arrangements and appointing an agent under the new act - As many of your plays have been written within the last ten years, the act being so far retrospective, it is to your interest to understand all its advantages - I undertook to write you on the subject, and also to inform you that Douglas Jerrold and Thomas James Serle will become subscribers to your work. One copy each - Am very happy to hear that your list of names are [sic] increasing'. The final reference is to Dibdin's 'Last Lays of the Last Three Dibdins' (1833), a collection of 200 songs which, according to the Oxford DNB, he published, '[e]ncouraged by Bulwer-Lytton's copyright reform, [.] under royal patronage and wide theatrical subscription'. Dibdin is not named as the recipient, but the item comes from a small collection of his papers.