photograph, autograph letter signed, autograph note signed, and 2 fragments signed,

English actor (1826-81). A tiny studio photograph (an inch by three-quarters of an inch) of Sothern in the role with which he is forever associated, that of Lord Dundreary in Tom Taylor's 'Our American Cousin' (1858). Head and shoulders, looking slightly to the left, sporting a monocle and a raffish look, a centre-parting, moustache, and the sideburns which gave a new word to the English language, "dundrearies". Mounted and glued to a torn sheet of paper also bearing two signatures cut away from letters, the first "E. A. Sothern" and the second "Ted". The letter to "Will" (his assistant?), no date or place, 2 pp, 12mo. He asks him to return to Mr Coppell all but one of the boxes of cigars he ordered for him, as these are not up to the standard of the sample. The note, to an unnamed male correspondent, no date or place, one page, 8vo. He requests that a copy of the illustrated Ingoldsby Legends be sent to Mrs Sothern at Oakley Lodge in Fulham. Five items,