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(Autograph Material : Performing Arts) 9 Pieces. American Performing & Fine Artists: Jefferson, Joe. Autograph Letters Signed (3). Cleveland, Buffalo, [New York?], no dates, [ca. 1890]. Each 3 or 4 pages, 8vo; moderate creasing along old folds, scattered spotting, minor occasional staining. To Mr. Wise [presumably John Sergeant Wise], social and convivial missives. Contents and signatures clear and strong. Signatures touched or traversed by creases. * Palmer, A(lbert) M(arsham). Autograph Letters Signed (3). (New York), no date [ca. 1885]. 2 pages, 8vo; light to moderate creasing along old folds. To John S(ergeant) Wise, "...It was most kind of you to ask me to be become one of the distinguished group gathered around your table..." New York, March 15, [18]85. 1 page, 8vo; vertical crease along old folds, minor dust smudging. To John S(ergeant) Wise, "Please find Enclosed check for the Virginia Easter Prize..." New York, April 17, 1893. 1 page, 4to; light creasing along old folds. On Palmer Theatre letterhead to Mr. [John Sergeant] Wise, "Enclosed is a sentiment [from Goethe's Faust - on a typed slip] to which I should be glad to have you respond..." also enclosing theater tickets. Palmer ALSs contents and signatures clear and strong, the signature of the 1893 ALS traversed by horizontal crease at its top. * MacKaye, James (Morrison Steele). Autograph Letters Signed (2). Washington, Jan. 27, 1891 and no place, no date [ca. 1890]. 3 1/4 and 3 pages, 8vo; creasing along old folds. To John [Sergeant] Wise, touching on Mackaye's activities as an actor and playwright. Contents and signatures clear and strong. Signatures not affected by creasing. * Crawford, Thomas (Gibson). Autograph Letter Signed. No place, April 22, [ca. 1850]. 1 1/2 pages, 4to, with integral address leaf; creasing along old folds, small tears and chips at blank edges of integral leaf. To John G(adsby) Chapman, [enclosing a letter which] "settles the statuary question in connection with the monument and that your friend Wise [Henry Alexander?] is a whole souled Virginian and has no idea of Splitting the order by dividing the statues among the rising generation..." Contents and signature clear and strong, vertical crease through the "C" of Crawford's signature. * Tracy, John M(artin). Ocean Springs, (Mississippi), no date, [ca. 1880]. 3 pages, 12mo; creases along old folds. To [John Sergeant] Wise, discussing, among other subjects, the progress of his work as an artist. Content and signature clear and strong, vertical crease through the "J" of Tracy's signature. Albert Marsham Palmer (1838-1905), American theatrical manager. James Morrison Steele MacKaye (1842-1894), American playwright and actor. Thomas Gibson Crawford (1814-1857), American sculptor, worked on U.S. Capitol, won Richmond, Virginia competition in 1849 for an equestrian monument to George Washington. John Gadsby Chapman (1808-1889), American painter and wood engraver. John Martin Tracy (1843-1903), American sporting artist. John Seargent Wise (1846-1913), U.S. Congressional Representative from Virginia, candidate for Governor of Virginia in 1885, practiced law in New York; son of Henry Alexander Wise (1806-1876), U.S. Congressional Representative from Virginia, last antebellum Governor of Virginia - signed the death warrant of John Brown Confederate General.