Autograph Letter Signed ('R. K.') from the comic actor Robert Keeley to 'Mr Lee' at the Olympic Theatre, London, requesting payment of his salary (as he is 'entirely without money') and asking for a note to be sent to the manager R. W. Elliston.

2pp., 16mo. Bifolium, with the reverse of the second leaf addressed to 'Mr Lee | Olympic Theatre'. Fair, on aged paper, with minor damage to second leaf on removal from album. The letter begins: 'R. Keeley's Compts to Mr Lee, will thank him to send his Salary per Bearer - R. K. is entirely without money and will thank Mr Lee to present the accompanying note to Mr Elliston's notice'. He asks Lee to oblige him 'with the date of the 2d. Week of the Leicester Season when I first resume my Sal -'. In a postscript he states that 'Any of the Company (Widdicomb or Elliot) will bring it if you will transcribe it for me' According to Keeley's entry in the Oxford DNB, 'R. W. Elliston saw him in Birmingham and engaged him for the Olympic, where he made what was practically his début in London in 1818, as the original Leporello in Don Giovanni in London, based on Mozart's opera; [...] When, in 1819, Elliston took Drury Lane, Keeley went with him'.