Description

Description: In this one-page autograph letter signed, J. M Barrie asks O.P. Heggie, who has followed his previous directions, to make yet another change:

“Dear Mr Heggie,

Many thanks for attending to the matter so promptly. I saw the changes last night and liked them but somehow the footmen business is not affecting them so cut him out and just let the curtains rise on the scene with the fender whose / there. I am glad you gave the Major domo these lines. He is a good man with an excellent voice & who needs more use of.

Yours Sincerely/J. M Barrie”

The letter is one of many letters written to Heggie during the performance of the play, The Dramatists Get What They Want at the Hippodrome Theatre.

Written on a 7” x 5 ½” sheet of ivory stationery bearing the address: “3, Adelphi Terrace House, Strand W. C.” Item #A02031

Sir J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) was a British playwright and novelist, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was made a Baronet by King George in 1913 and a member of the Order of Merit in 1922. He left all the rights to Peter Pan to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.

Oliver Peters Heggie (1877-1936), an Australian theater and film actor, began in amateur theater productions in Sydney and London. He gained prominence on Broadway (NYC), playing the lead in Androcles and The Lion, Old Man Minick in Minick, Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, Diggory in She Stoops to Conquer and others. He moved to Hollywood in 1928 and appeared in 27 films, including: The Count of Monte Cristo, The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu, etc.

Condition: Mailing fold line, otherwise very good.