[Fanny Stirling [née Mary Anne Hehl] (1813-1895), English actress.] Autograph Letter Signed asking the actor W. H. Swanborough, manager of the Strand and Royalty Theatres, to ‘wade thro’ the accompanying “M S”’.

See her entry in the Oxford DNB. The Swanboroughs were a significant Victorian theatrical dynasty, and the absence of any member of the family from the same work is puzzling. 3pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, on aged and lightly worn paper, with traces of glue and strip of tape from mount adhering to blank reverse of second leaf. Folded twice. Addressed to ‘Mr. Swanborough’ and signed ‘Fanny Stirling’. She wonders whether he can ‘find time to wade thro’ the accompanying “M S”’, and let her know whether there is ‘the least chance of it - or something from the same pen - suiting either Strand - or Royalty -’. As she considers herself ‘so bad a judge of Burlesque’, she ‘couldn’t venture to give the Author an opinion - but promised to endeavour to procure him one from a better judge’. He is, she concludes, ‘the first victim to that rash promise made’.