Printed menu card complimentary to Lester Wallack, for dinner at the Lotos club [manuscript], 1887 December 17.

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Printed menu card complimentary to Lester Wallack, for dinner at the Lotos club [manuscript], 1887 December 17.

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The menu has dishes named after plays of Shakespeare and others. Signed "Lester Wallack to his dear friend "Willie." Endorsed by William Winter. The verso has notes relating to events that took place at the dinner, including anecdotes Wallack gave on his family and his father having been the first to wear a grey wig as Shylock, Byron's comment on Dunlap's Life of Cooke, "the parts [Cooke] played and the pints he swallowed," and Wallack liking to play the part of Harry Denton in The road to ruin. Signed "J.W." Likely William Jefferson Winter.

1 leaf ; 19 x 12 cm.

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