Autograph Letter Signed by George Lumbard ('Geo Lumbard') to unnamed correspondent.

One page, 12mo. Good on piece of lightly-creased and aged paper, neatly mounted on slightly-larger piece of paper. Enclosing funds 'for the Use of St Andrews Hall April 2nd. 3rd. & 4th./66 for Christys Minstrels Concerts'. Postscript requests that receipt be sent to Reading in Berkshire: 'Shall be there on Thursday next'. A significant document. 1866 marked the introduction of the minstrel show into England by Christy's Minstrels, and the first of several extremely successful tours by the company. Lumbard may have been a relation of the celebrated Lumbard Brothers, Jules and Frank, who 'introduced The Battle Cry of Freedom at a Chicago war rally on July 24, 1862'.