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LITERATURE, THEATRE AND MUSIC. A collection of autograph letters signed by 19th- and 20th-century writers, actors, and composers, circa 1879-1982, including: Samuel BUTLER 3 autograph letters signed to H.M. Paget, 1879/80, on Paget's work and family, his own travels, and sales of Erewhon , 11 pages, 8vo ; George CLAUSEN to H.M. Paget, 1927, on materials and methods in painting, one page, 8vo ; George WHYTE-MELVILLE, n.d., urging publication of his books (on sporting subjects) in time for the season, 3 pages, 8vo ; Lady (Augusta) GREGORY to A.P. Graves, 1909, on his fairy tale book and saying the theatre takes all her time, 4 pages, 8vo ; George William RUSSELL ('A.E.') to Mrs Emery [Florence Farr, in Ceylon], 1916, on the general situation, war, philosphy, Yeats ('a little less inhuman'), mentioning Padraic Colum and other writers, 2 pages, 4to ; Edward John Plunket, Lord DUNSANY, 3 including one to 'A.E.', [n.d., 1937 and 1951], on his novel about Ireland, and generally about his writings, 7 pages, 8vo ; Max BEERBOHM to André Raffalovich, 1919, '[I] shall whisper to the blinking (yet respectful) servant that I am a friend of M. Raffalovich, am going to be an LLD, and should like to lie down', 2 pages, 8vo ; Robert GRAVES to Peter Cranham, 1968, commenting on his old age, 'I look back to no years of inconstancy but find my life all of a piece', one page, 4to ; Gordon CRAIG. 10 autograph letters signed (2 including self-caricatures) to Percy Rhodes (actor), 1891-1894, on starting his company, discussing parts and performances, 25 pages, 8vo , and a signed and inscribed portrait photograph; and letters by Ellen Terry Mrs Patrick Campbell ('Beatrice Stella Campbell'), Sacheverell Sitwell (2, and one incomplete), Stephen Spender (typed), Enid Bagnold (typed), Maurice Cardiff (3), Sir John Summerson (2), Keidryk Rhys, Geoffrey Grigson, Constant Lambert (2), Benjamin Britten (typed letter signed about a part), Lord (Gerald) Berners, Cyril Beaumont, Richard Buckle (ballet critic, 4), Frederick Ashton, Cicely Courtneige, Jean Denis Malcles (5, about designs for 'Orphée aux Enfers'), Jules Massenet (to his biographer, with related items), and other signatories; 2 printed works by Lady (Augusta) Gregory, The Full Moon (Dublin, 1911) and The Kiltartan History Book (Dublin, 1909, both worn, wrappers detached); 2 printed volumes of verse, inscribed and signed by Sacheverell Sitwell; and theatrical memorabilia.