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Various Artists/Nathan's A large ledger and scrap album containing autographs, correspondence and press-cuttings associated with theatrical costumiers Messrs L. and H. Nathan between circa 1881-1965 including approximately 220 autograph letters and fragments, signed, from artists, theatrical lumineries and society figures including: W.S.Gilbert, Lily Langtry, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry Walter Crane J.E.Millais, Richard D'Oyly Carte, Beerbohm Tree, Robert Buchanan, Barry Sullivan, W.H.Kendal, Fred Morgan, Seymour Lucas, Mary Moore, Martin Harvey, Roger Furse Charles B.Cochran, Robert Donat, Laurence Olivier, E.H.Shepard, Noel Coward, Gladys Cooper, Anton Dolin and Anna Neagle ; two letters from Balmoral and one from Osborne referring to orders for costumes for royal tableaux and programmes from Balmoral, Osborne and Kimbolton Castles; three typescript notes from the Superintendent of Windsor Castle, 1943, referring to orders for a Christmas pantomime Aladdin and corresponding programme featuring H.R.H. Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret; and approximately 108 loose autograph and typescript letters, signed, to Archie and John Nathan, various dates circa 1940s-1960s, subjects include: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier (3), Peter Cushing, Clive Brook, Evelyn Laye, Jack Hawkins, Fay Compton, Michael Redgrave (4), Alec Guinness (2), Anna Neagle, Sybil Thorndike, Herbert Norris, Jean Seberg, James Mason Roger Furse (5), Michael Redgrave and Anna Ziegler(a lot)