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Paper. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. An Original Handwritten and Signed Letter by Actors Marie Tempest and Her Husband Actor Cosmo Stuart. Dated 1898. Dame Mary Susan Etherington, 1864 - 1942, known professionally as Marie Tempest, was an English singer and actress. Tempest became a famous soprano in late Victorian light opera and Edwardian musical comedies. Later, she became a leading comic actress and toured widely in North America and elsewhere She was also instrumental in the founding of the actors' union Equity in Britain. Cosmo Charles Gordon-Lennox 1869 - 1921, whose stage name was Cosmo Stuart, was a British actor and playwright of the late-19th and early-20th centuries. He became known as an actor in the 1890s, but by the turn of the century he had begun to concentrate on writing, usually under his real name. He specialised in adapting French comedies for the British stage, but also wrote original works, often as vehicles for his wife, the actress Marie Tempest. Size is 178mm x 112mm. Condition is good. Light folding crease. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18815. Signed by Author(s).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. ESMOND, H.V; HAWTRY, Charles H; KEMBLE, Henry; STUART, Cosmo et all. One Summer's Day - autograph card of the complete cast, 1898 Autograph card, 210 x 155mm, signed by the complete cast of H. V. Esmond's One Summer's Day during its run at the Comedy Theatre, London: Charles H. Hawtrey, Henry Kemble, Cosmo Stuart, Ernest Hendrie, Kenneth Douglas, Lyston Lyle, Robert Bottomley, Eva Moore, Beatrice Ferrar, Mrs Charles Calvert, Lydia Rachel and Constance Collier. Extensive old mounting residue to the reverse, otherwise very good. One Summer's Day opened at the Comedy Theatre in September 1897. By early 1898 Beatrice Ferrar had replaced Lettice Fairfax in the role of Irene, making the signatures here a complete cast record from that stage of the original run.  One Summer's Day was a three-act light comedy first produced at the Comedy Theatre in September 1897. Set around a summer outing on the Thames, its plot combined several romantic misunderstandings amongst the cast. The play was a success and remained in the Comedy Theatre repertoire late into 1898. Signed by Author(s).…