*Hankin (St. John Emile Clavering, 1869-1909). A group of autograph letters signed from theatre c

*Hankin (St. John Emile Clavering, 1869-1909). A group of autograph letters signed from theatre critics, actors and managers, etc., mostly c. 1900s, to St John Hankin (or wife) concerning his plays, performances, etc., correspondence include William Archer, Sidney Lee, Madge Kendal (2), Dennis Eadie, Harley Granville-Barker (6), Rosina Filippi, Mary Moore (4), A. E. Matthews, Gerald Du Maurier, Herman Vezin, and others, including some unidentified, mostly one or two pages, 8vo 'St. John Hankin, one of the most interesting writers of the Edwardian New Drama, was born in Southampton in 1869 and educated at Malvern School and Oxford. He married Florence Routledge and went to India as a journalist but, having contracted malaria, he returned to London in 1895. He became drama critic for The Times and also wrote for Punch... His theatrical interests and his admiration of the work of Bernard Shaw took him onto the council of the Stage Society, and to his first play, The Two Mr Wetherbys, which was produced by the Society in 1903 ... Renewed critical interest and the reprinting of two of the plays make it likely that Hankin will gain a permanent, if minor, place in the national theatrical repertoire', Literary Encyclopedia. (approx. 60)