[ Helen Faucit, English actress. ] Autograph Letter Signed ('Helen Faucit Martin') to John Coleman, explaining why an engagement in Sheffield would be inconvenient to her.

4pp., 12mo. Bifolium with mourning border. In good condition, lightly aged. Her engagements will keep her in Scotland for three weeks, after which she intends to 'return direct to London'. Sheffield is too far out of her way, and would 'prove tiresome & expensive'. Should she visit Manchester 'at Easter or Whitsuntide' she would have no objection to performing in Sheffield for a couple of nights. 'I might even take Sheffield before Manchester if that would be more convenient to you, only that perhaps the holidays hanging over me would be bad for the engagement.' She apologises for refusing him again but the inconvenience would be such that 'any remuneration Sheffield could be likely to give would not compensate me'.