A group of five autograph letters signed by actress / manager Effie Marie Bancroft (1849-1921) to actor / manager Seymour Hicks (1871-1949)

Original letters. BANCROFT, Effie (1849-1921). Five autograph letters signed to Sir Seymour Hicks (1871-1949). London, 18 Berkeley Square, 1899. Five autograph letters, variously 2-4 pages each, written on embossed stationery of 18 Berkeley Square. Four letters approx. 170 × 130 mm; one smaller letter approx. 150 × 100 mm. Comprising: (1) "Thursday", 4 pp. on one folded sheet; (2) February 1899, 2 pp. on one sheet; (3) October 1899, 2 pp. on one folded sheet; (4) November 1899, 4 pp. on one folded sheet; (5) December 1899, 4 pp. on one folded sheet. All with a narrow strip of old mounting residue to the final page, otherwise in very good condition. A small group of letters from Effie Bancroft, leading Victorian actress and co-manager (with her husband Sir Squire Bancroft) of the Prince of Wales's Theatre, to the young Seymour Hicks, then emerging as one of the leading actor-managers of the next generation. The correspondence dates from 1899, when Hicks was consolidating his position in London theatre and still closely connected with the Bancrofts, who had played a formative role in his early career.  . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1899.