BENSON (Sir Frank Robert, 1858-1939, Actor-Manager)

Autograph Letter Signed to Lady Macandrew, "my wife ... is rather knocked up with all the acting and rehearsing in the cold theatre ... after all your kindness in making arrangements to suit us", 2 sides 8vo., Langtons, Alresford, Hampshire, no date, c.

Sir Frank founded a repertory company to produce Shakespeare, and was responsible for 26 annual Shakespeare festivals at Stratford-upon-Avon. He was the only actor ever to have been knighted in a theatre, by George V at the Shakespeare Tercentenary at Drury Lane, when a sword was hurriedly procured for the royal box from a military outfitter's nearby.

Item Date:  1910

Stock No:  12181      £35

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