[Henry Arthur Jones, playwright and polemicist.] Autograph Letter Signed to T. E. Woodrow of the London Library, thanking him for his trouble over the 'Restoration Dramatists' and proffering 'places for the Vaudeville' in return.

Author: 
Henry Arthur Jones (1851-1929), naturalist playwright and conservative polemicist [T. E. Woodrow, Chief Clerk, London Library]
Publication details: 
14 November 1884; on letterhead of The Hill House, Chalfont St Peter, via Slough, Bucks.
£45.00
SKU: 26348

'There are three rules for writing plays', Oscar Wilde is said to have declared. ‘The first rule is not to write like Henry Arthur Jones; the second and third rules are the same.’ See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, slightly trimmed at the edges, and in a windowpane mount. With two folds for postage. Addressed to ‘J E Woodrow Esqre / London Library’, and signed ‘Henry A Jones’. Having ‘received the Restoration Dramatists’, for which he encloses a cheque, he asks Woodrow to ‘accept some places for the Vaudeville in return for your trouble - I enclose you a letter to Mr Alport which will admit you any evening except Saturdays’.