Document ID ET,Z1,729

Archive Location ET IN, XYZ (BL)
Document description letter, copy
Date August 1948
Document form B - Letter to Ellen Terry, Edith Craig or family member
Document attributes Annotated; Typed; Envelope extant
Number of leaves 1
Correspondent Seymour Hicks
Addressee Gielgud [John Gielgud]
Corporate Body Ellen Terry Memorial Museum
General notes Copy of letter providing the history of the boots worn by Edmund Kean as Richard the Third: given to Henry Irving by John Lawrence Toole. Toole gave them to Mr Lowne, father of C. M. Lowne who gave them to Seymour Hicks; Evans Music Hall; Laurence Olivier.
Language English

Works Cited

Title Richard III
Original author [William Shakespeare]
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