An important and extensive archive of letters, drawings and posters relating to the Bateman Sisters and the London stage, including ink drawings by James Abbot McNeil Whistler and William Powell Frith letters in full hand include Alfred Lord Tennyson, M Jerome, William Makepeace Thackeray Sir Henry Lytton, Wilkie Collins, Justin McCarthy Ruffini, William Powell Frith (with portrait sketch in ink), Thomas Hughes, John Blakey, Helena Fawcit Martin, John Everett Millais Sir John Tenniel George Augustus Sala James Albery, Marie Taglioni, John Augustin Daly, John Petrie, Anne Thackeray, John Newall, Eyre Crowe (with ink drawing titled Pets, dated 1878), Shirley Brooks, Arthur Sullivan, Adelina Patti, W G Willis (pencil portrait), Phylis Caldwin, Carl Rosa, Artemus Ward (aka Charles Farrar Browne), Edmund Yates, John Woolner, Joachin Millar, George Frederick Watts RA, Charles Keene, Violet Bouchier (aka Violet Vanbrugh), Frederick William Farrar, Louis Parker, Henry James (author), Fanny Brough, Madam Albani (with line of music), Florence Bell, Sir Herbert Beerbohn Tree (founder of RADA), W G Wills, Esme Beringer, William Holman Hunt (referring to Miss Batemans 'task' to Holman Hunt), C Hayden Coffin, Robert Dell, Charles Cousins, Ellen Terry Sir Henry Irving, Sir Johnstone Forbes Robertson, John Drew, Richard Grant White Dame Sybil Thorndyke, Ursula Thorpe, Jack Pollock, Fay Compton etc. together with a large collection of bound performance posters for the St James Theatre, and a leather bound illuminated manuscript to Mrs Crowe, 1877 (3) Note: Kate and Ellen Bateman became famous in America in the mid to late 19th century as actresses and stage performers, regularly travelling and performing all over the world. The archive contains an uncatalogued account of their contemporary fame with letters from playwrights, theatre owners, actors and artists, all referring to personal and theatrical matters. The Bateman's father was the owner of the Lyceum theatre Provenance: By descent Literature and Publicity: A Bundle of Letters, Yorkshire Evening Post, 28th November 1934
An important and extensive archive of letters, drawings and posters relating to the Bateman Sisters and the London stage, including ink drawings by James Abbot McNeil Whistler and William Powell Frith letters in full hand include Alfred Lord Tennyson, M Jerome, William Makepeace Thackeray Sir Henry Lytton, Wilkie Collins, Justin McCarthy Ruffini, William Powell Frith (with portrait sketch in ink), Thomas Hughes, John Blakey, Helena Fawcit Martin, John Everett Millais Sir John Tenniel George Augustus Sala James Albery, Marie Taglioni, John Augustin Daly, John Petrie, Anne Thackeray, John Newall, Eyre Crowe (with ink drawing titled Pets, dated 1878), Shirley Brooks, Arthur Sullivan, Adelina Patti, W G Willis (pencil portrait), Phylis Caldwin, Carl Rosa, Artemus Ward (aka Charles Farrar Browne), Edmund Yates, John Woolner, Joachin Millar, George Frederick Watts RA, Charles Keene, Violet Bouchier (aka Violet Vanbrugh), Frederick William Farrar, Louis Parker, Henry James (author), Fanny Brough, Madam Albani (with line of music), Florence Bell, Sir Herbert Beerbohn Tree (founder of RADA), W G Wills, Esme Beringer, William Holman Hunt (referring to Miss Batemans 'task' to Holman Hunt), C Hayden Coffin, Robert Dell, Charles Cousins, Ellen Terry Sir Henry Irving, Sir Johnstone Forbes Robertson, John Drew, Richard Grant White Dame Sybil Thorndyke, Ursula Thorpe, Jack Pollock, Fay Compton etc. together with a large collection of bound performance posters for the St James Theatre, and a leather bound illuminated manuscript to Mrs Crowe, 1877 (3) Note: Kate and Ellen Bateman became famous in America in the mid to late 19th century as actresses and stage performers, regularly travelling and performing all over the world. The archive contains an uncatalogued account of their contemporary fame with letters from playwrights, theatre owners, actors and artists, all referring to personal and theatrical matters. The Bateman's father was the owner of the Lyceum theatre Provenance: By descent Literature and Publicity: A Bundle of Letters, Yorkshire Evening Post, 28th November 1934
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