autograph letter signed, autograph note signed and typed note signed,

English dramatist and actor-manager (1871-1949), knighted in 1935. The letter, to Mrs [Jean] Webster Brough, 24 May 1939, on cropped letterhead, 1 page, 12mo. "[...] Im so glad you liked the little book. Yes indeed our families have been bound together - over many years - and I remember the happy times I had with dear Polly at Tooles Theatre I can hardly believe it is more than five & forty years ago Please give my love to Ben & May when you see them". The autograph note, undated, on letterhead of the Garrick Club, one page, 12mo. "Dearest Jean [Webster Brough] / My loving thanks to you. It's a hard go - but many others have to suffer & one must join them however difficult / My love to you always / Seymour H." The reference may be to the tour party that Hicks took to France during the First World War, for which he was awarded the Legion of Honour by the French Government. The typewritten letter, to Miss Buckley, 9 December 1898, Gaiety Theatre, one page, 8vo. He apologises for returning the wrong photograph, and in an autograph postscript asks her to accept a book (not present). Traces of mount stuck to reverse.