Autograph Letter Signed ('J. S. Knowles') from the Irish dramatist James Sheridan Knowles to 'My Dear Kenneth'.

1 p, 4to. Good, on lightly-aged paper, and still attached to a leaf removed from an autograph album. His troupe 'play in Manchester on the 11th. Jany. for one week. Now, observe! Can you effect an engagement for a week previous to or subsequent to that period - or both subsequent and previous.' Knowles will be in London, 'please God, next week', and the recipient's 'attention deserves and has' Knowles's gratitude. A postscript reads: 'Miss Elphinstone achieved a complete triumph in Edinburgh, the reception was great indeed. You know our terms'. According to the Oxford DNB, 'After Knowles's successful tour of America in 1834, Macready's attitude to him changed, not least because of Knowles's flagrant parading of his young protégée Emma Marian Maria Elphinstone, who had returned from America with him in 1835, and whom he married on 23 July 1842, the year after the death of his first wife.'