THE FATHER OF MODERN ACTING, STEELE MACKAYE ON THE DIFFICULTIES THAT BESET A YOUNG DRAMATIC AUTHOR
STEELE MACKAYE
(James Morrison, 1842-1894, American Playwright, Actor, Manager and Inventor)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Arthur Levy
asking “how many experimental attempts I may have made, in my earliest study of the Art of play writing, I do not now recall - as many years have passed since I began this work. The first play I ever presented to any management was accepted. The object of your enquiry is, doubtless, to learn what the chances of a beginner in this line of endeavour usually are. This is difficult to determine. No art is mastered except by deep study, and patient practice. This takes time. We learn by failure how to succeed and he who has the undaunted will to work through failure, to a more enlightened attempt ultimately manifests that species of manhood which is the very substance of true genius...”, 2 sides 8vo., on separate sheets, New York, 17th November
Item Date:
1887
Stock No:
42537
£175
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STEPHEN
(Right Honourable Sir James Stephen, K.C.B., 1789-1859, Essayist and Professor of Modern History)
End of Autograph Letter Signed to J.M. Kemble, 3rd October
Item Date:
1849
Stock No:
8644
£10
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STEPHEN WRITING ON THE ECONOMICS OF INDUSTRY
STEPHEN
(Sir Leslie, 1821-1904, First Editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, Father of Virginia WOOLF)
Portion of an Autograph manuscript Signed on the right hand side,
including references to Carlyle "I can fully pardon Carlyle for the assertion ... that the school of Ricardo, Bentham & James Mill was 'materialist' ... & thought too much of more industrial conditions of progress. It was natural from his point of view. I confess to feeling some indignation when his ... utterances are taken up & repeated vehemently ... who have never taken the trouble to understand their ... position; and not differ from him ... coolly & scientifically the usual conditions ... of the proposed remedies ... But is economy scientific. That is a question on wh. I suspect that Jowett would have followed Mill in taking a rather exaggerated view of the claims of his favourite study. Admitting that it is possible to construct a science setting forth the laws of the production exchange and distribution of wealth no one can deny its vast importance. If we could accurately state the conditions under which the ways of the labouring class could be permanently raised ...", the left hand side of 1 side folio, no place, no date
Item Date:
1886
Stock No:
40637
£175
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STEPHENS
(James, 1880-1950, Irish Novelist and Poet)
Autograph Poem in pencil signed with a small sketch of a mouse above his signature
titled “For all young brides” the poem is “When a son you shall desire / Pray to water, and to fire; But, when you would have a daughter ‘ Pray to fire, and then to water...”, 1 side 4to., no place, no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
42185
£275
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STERN
(G.B., 1890-1973, Author)
Autograph Letter Signed ‘with initials, to Catherine Dupré,
(1927-2014, Writer and Artist) saying that she envies her “Vienna, & thank you for your candles & prayer for me at St Stefan’s, they can join the little miraculous Medal which Marguerite Steer bought me from there with ‘Wien’ scratched on it - I can wear it now because my long silver chain from a friend in Philadelphia has safely arrived. This letter is getting too geographical! It’s chiefly to say that I saw Father Mangan yesterday at Farm Street & we talking about you... and instructed me & Pamela Frankau he said he’d certainly like a talk with Desmond...”, continuing at length about arranging a meeting and going on that “Father M. has to have a long rest... he’s terribly lame from his wound in the 1914 War & not at all strong, easily gets exhausted. But he is a darling, full of fun and humour, well-read & with an intellectual not a sentimental approach to Catholicism, very human and scornful of people who ‘split hairs’ over what doesn’t really matter...”, 8 sides 8vo., D1 Albany, W1, no date but circa
Item Date:
1954
Stock No:
43626
£125
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