SIGNATURE OF THE NONAGENARIAN MRS. GARRICK A FEW DAYS BEFORE HER DEATH.
I have in my collection a Drury Lane box-ticket dated and signed by Mrs. Garrick a few days before her death. In the last decade of the nineteenth century the late Mr. Thomas Knox Holmes told me he had danced with Mrs. Garrick in her drawing-room at the Adelphi when she was past ninety. She was actually engaged in inspecting her dress for the theatre when Death once more "eclipsed the gaiety" of the brilliant little côterie in which Garrick's widow moved.
The letters of Sarah Siddons fetched quite as much or even more in the "eighteen-seventies" than they do now. As a matter of fact, the charming letter to Mrs. Piozzi, now reproduced, exchanged hands in 1876 at £2 2s. more than I gave for it in 1910.
A GENUINE SHORT NOTE SIGNED BY EDMUND KEAN, AFTERWARDS IMITATED.
A.L.S. OF R. B. SHERIDAN ASKING FOR TIME TO PAY A DRAFT.
