one autograph letter signed to [?] Murray,

English actor-manager (1837-1919), knighted in 1902. 2 pp, 8vo. An interesting letter relating to the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith. "I suppose your plans are definitely arranged with regard to the much lamented & 'Lyric' If not, or you think we could turn it into a Theatre - size - a little larger than the Criterion, I would be ready either to take a lease of it or even put money into it - and I fancy it would pay the starters. / If in addition you could see your way to join me then in a similar capacity as Bram Stoker [1847-1912, author of Dracula and Sir Henry Irving's secretary and tour manager] I should esteem myself for much. / Drop me a line." Cropped at head, and clumsily pasted to a page of an autograph album, with a letter from Henry Mackinnon to [?] Munday pasted to the reverse.