Dear Sir [letter response to request for an autograph]

by Vezin, Hermann

$250 · Offered by Biblio

Signed

London: Hermann Vezin, 1877. Original manuscript signed by the author. Single sheet, written on one side. Good. The format is approximately 8.75 inches by 7 inches, folded in half, with writing on one side only. Printed on the actor's personal stationery with home address. Pencil notation at the top of pages. The text reads Nov/4/77 Sir, I send you my autograph. I dare say with three copies. [unclear] would let you have some photographs for the purpose in view because my inability to do more for you as well as the brevity of this note. I have no time for more. Yours H. Vezin. On the next panel are three signed quotations: "Thou nature are my goddess" King Lear Hermann Vezin; "Corruption wins not more than honesty" Henry VIII Hermann Vezin; "Take the instant way" Troilus & Cressda. Hermann Vezin. Sir J. Forbes-Robertson described Vezin in the London Post as a "bright and dapper little man, who was both "learned and dictatorial on the art of acting." The Illustrated London News review of Vezin in the title role of Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith noted that "Mr. Vezin is probably the most intellectual of our actors, and is the very man for creating an original part, such as that of Dan'l Druce" and described one scene as "an acting hit by Mr. Hermann Vezin which literally electrified the house." He was one of W. S. Gilbert's favorite actors. and, besides the aforementioned Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith, he also starred in Gilbert's Randall's Thumb, (1871), and played Mousta in an 1882 revival

• Publisher: Hermann Vezin
• Year: 1877
• Edition: Original manuscript signed by the author
• Binding: unknown

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