[Ben Webster [Benjamin Nottingham Webster], actor-manager who built the Adelphi.] Autograph Letter Signed, thanking Henry Spicer on behalf of the Dramatic College, Covent Garden, for a financial ‘Godsend’.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. On a bifolium the blank second leaf of which is laid down on part of a leaf from an album. Folded twice for postage. The recipient is ‘Henry Spicer Esq’, presumably a relation of the artist of the same name (d.1804; see ODNB), several of whose theatrical portraits are in the Garrick Club collection. Webster has been given ‘infinite pleasure’ by his ‘generous offer’: ‘Be assured the Dramatic College is a most prosperous institution & well deserving your patronage.’ He asks him to ‘call at our offices 15 Bedford Street Covent Garden’, where he will ‘see a full confirmation of what I state’. In a postscript he asks him to allow Webster to ‘announce this extra Godsend this week. The cost does not exceed £250 as per agreement’.