Typed letter signed from Herbert Beerbohm Tree, London, to Mr. Wyke Bayliss [manuscript], 1897 February 17.

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Typed letter signed from Herbert Beerbohm Tree, London, to Mr. Wyke Bayliss [manuscript], 1897 February 17.

Declines an offer to deliver an address. If it is possible to deliver an address on any other day than Saturday, he would prefer to deliver his lecture on the subject of Hamlet. On letterhead of Her Majesty's Theatre.

2 leaves ; 21 x 13 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7623917

Folger Shakespeare Library

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