[Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, English playwright.] Autograph Letter Signed, inviting the journalist A. M. Broadley to a ‘plain breakfast’.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The recipient (‘Broadley Pasha’), at the time de facto editor of Edmund Yates’s magazine ‘The World’, was a scandalous figure, who richly deserves his own entry in the same work. 2pp, 16mo. Bifolium. Text on the outer pages, the inner pages carrying the remains of newspaper cuttings which were previously laid down on them. Otherwise in fair condition, lightly aged, with thin strip of tape from mount adhering to the last page, which also has a newspaper cutting laid down at its foot, regarding the death of A. Sutherland Sutton. Folded once. Addressed to ‘Dear Mr. Broadley’ and signed ‘Arthur W. Pinero.’ After expressing regret that he has ‘already disposed of Friday from an early hour’, he asks: ‘Will you on Saturday or Tuesday morning, at the hour you name, eat a plain breakfast with me here? Kindly let me know which - if either - of these days suit you?’