Auction Date:2011 Jan 12 @ 16:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Rare ALS signed “J. T. Ford,” one page both sides, 5.25 x 8.25, no date. Ford writes Mr. Wright to discuss theater business. In full: “Your anticipated and promised letter did not arrive. Respecting Mrs. Bowers’ engagement, I will give her the terms for the time in January and Feb. which will be in the least profitable part of the Season. I will certain press her engagement with great vigor and endeavor successfully to make her a permanent Star favorite in two cities. With this much understood leave from her if she accepts my offer. I will locate the precise day of the commencement in reply after I hear positively from her. Mr. Tayleune has written a most admirable new version of East Lyme and is now engaged on some other dramatizations which I think will be popular. Mrs. B have them to read at an early period. Write me immediately.” In fine condition, with intersecting folds and slight separation of an adjoining page and a paper clip impression at the top margin.
This letter was likely written to John B. Wright, the stage manager at Ford’s Theater when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. A shadow was cast upon Ford’s reputation as an honest and honorable businessman after the president was murdered by John Wilkes Booth—an actor and friend of Ford, who was out of town when Lincoln was shot. In this correspondence, however, all that is in evidence is Ford’s sincerity and willingness to promote an act “with great vigor and endeavor” in order “to make her a permanent Star favorite in two cities”—certainly no surprise as Ford also managed theaters in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina. Ford and the name ‘Ford’s Theater’ are among the most recognizable in American history.
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