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LETTER FROM THE FOUNDER OF THE ABBEY THEATRE, DUBLIN
HORNIMAN
(Annie Elizabeth Fredericka, 1860-1937, Procured the Abbey Theatre in 1904 for the Irish National Theatre Society)
Autograph Letter Signed to 'Dear Sir'
(Sydney Ansell GIMSON, 1860-1938, President of the Leicester Secular Society) saying she thinks it will be best for me to take the mid-day train... that would bring me to Leicester at 2.20. There are not many trains on Sundays & I may as well come by the one in which a friend of mine will travel to London. It is most kind of you to offer me hospitality for the night & I gladly accept it. I shall bring a little luggage with me as one gets so untidy in the train... 2 sides 8vo., 1H Montagu Mansions, Portman Square headed paper, re-addressed from 110 High Street, Manchester, 17th February
Item Date: 1915
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Background
Frederick John Horniman's daughter, Annie Elizabeth Fredericka Horniman was an English theatre patron and student of the Slade School of Art. She established the Abbey Theatre, Dublin and the Gaiety Theatre, Manchester, the first regional repertory theatre company in Britain. She was an associate and patron of several influential writers including W. B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw and members of the Manchester School of dramatists.
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