[William Samuel Woodin, Victorian entertainer.] Autograph Letter Signed ('W. S Woodin') to W. C. M. Kent [Dickens's friend Charles Kent], editor of the Sun, regarding his refurbishment of the Myriographic Hall, Piccadilly, for entertainments.

3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, on aged paper. With envelope addressed by Woodin to 'W. C. M. Kent Esqr | Sun Office', on which is written 'Your Card of course will admit any Friends'. The letter begins: 'My very dear Sir, | I have taken the Salle Robin and called it The Myriographic Hall, now I intend inviting the gentlemen of the Press on Thursday Evening March 3rd. I trust that you will be able to come and see me in my new abbode because I have been at a great expense in the decoration &c of the place and I am sure you will observe a great change for the better in its aspect | Oh it was in a sad state when I obtained possession of the premises'. He asks Kent to bring 'a few of the press' with him, so that he may 'get some fresh notices about my change of place and also some remarks upon the new things that I have introduced since the last time my Entertainment was noticed'. He concludes with 'kind regards' to Kent's 'amiable father'. The present item dates from the beginning of Woodin's career. For more about Woodin, see his obituary in The Times, 4 January 1888, according to which Woodin ('the well-known actor and delineator of character') was brought up in the business of his father, a picture dealer in Old Bond Street, 'but, although possessed of considerable taste in matters of art, his natural talents induced him to strike out in an original line for himself, and he astonished his friends in starting the "Carpet-bag and Sketch-book" in 1852.'