Five letters from actress Effie Bancroft to actor Seymour Hicks 1899

BANCROFT, Effie (1849–1921). Five autograph letters signed to Sir Seymour Hicks (1871–1949). London, 18 Berkeley Square, 1899.
 
Five autograph letters, variously 2–4 pages each, written on embossed stationery of 18 Berkeley Square. Four letters approx. 170 × 130 mm; one smaller letter approx. 150 × 100 mm. Comprising: (1) “Thursday”, 4 pp. on one folded sheet; (2) February 1899, 2 pp. on one sheet; (3) October 1899, 2 pp. on one folded sheet; (4) November 1899, 4 pp. on one folded sheet; (5) December 1899, 4 pp. on one folded sheet. All with a narrow strip of old mounting residue to the final page, otherwise in very good condition.
 
A small group of letters from Effie Bancroft, leading Victorian actress and co-manager (with her husband Sir Squire Bancroft) of the Prince of Wales’s Theatre, to the young Seymour Hicks, then emerging as one of the leading actor-managers of the next generation. The correspondence dates from 1899, when Hicks was consolidating his position in London theatre and still closely connected with the Bancrofts, who had played a formative role in his early career.