*DRACULA: BRAM STOKER RARE 1902 HAND WRITTEN LETTER TO FAMOUS AMERICAN SCULPTOR*

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A rare original boldly autographed 1902 letter from Henry Irving, the greatest British actor of his generation and the first actor to be knighted, written in the hand of Irving's Acting Manager, Bram Stoker, to the noted American sculptor William Ordway Partridge. Future Dracula author Bram Stoker was Irving's Acting Manager, and Dracula was based on Henry Irving. William Ordway Partridge was a friend of Irving, Stoker, and Edwin Booth. Dimensions eight by five inches. Light wear otherwise good. See Bram Stoker, Henry Irving, and William Ordway Partridge's extraordinary biographies below.<br>Shipping discounts for multiple purchases. Inquiries always welcome. Please visit my other eBay items for more early theatre, opera, film and historical autographs, photographs and programs and great actor and actress cabinet photos and CDV's.<br>From Wikipedia:<br>Abraham<br>"<br>Bram<br>"<br>Stoker<br>(8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author, best known today for his 1897<br>Gothic<br>horror novel<br>Dracula<br>. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Sir<br>Henry Irving<br>and business manager of the<br>Lyceum Theatre<br>, which Irving owned.<br>Stoker was born on 8 November 1847 at 15<br>Marino Crescent<br>,<br>Clontarf<br>, on the northside of<br>Dublin<br>, Ireland.<br>[1]<br>His parents were Abraham Stoker (1799–1876) from Dublin and Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornley (1818–1901), who was raised in<br>County Sligo<br>.<br>[2]<br>Stoker was the third of seven children, the eldest of whom was<br>Sir Thornley Stoker<br>, 1st<br>Bt.<br>[3]<br>Abraham and Charlotte were members of the<br>Church of Ireland Parish of Clontarf<br>and attended the parish church with their children, who were baptised there,<br>[4]<br>and Abraham was a senior civil servant.<br>Stoker was bedridden with an unknown illness until he started school at the age of seven, when he made a complete recovery. Of this time, Stoker wrote, "I was naturally thoughtful, and the leisure of long illness gave opportunity for many thoughts which were fruitful according to their kind in later years." He was educated in a private school run by the Rev. William Woods.<br>[5]<br>After his recovery, he grew up without further serious illnesses, even excelling as an athlete at<br>Trinity College, Dublin<br>, which he attended from 1864 to 1870. He graduated with a BA in 1870, and pursued his MA in 1875. Though he later in life recalled graduating "with honours in mathematics", this appears to have been a mistake.<br>[6]<br>He was named University Athlete, participating in multiple sports, including playing rugby for<br>Dublin University<br>. He was auditor of the<br>College Historical Society<br>(<br>the Hist<br>) and president of the<br>University Philosophical Society<br>(he remains the only student in Trinity's history to hold both positions), where his first paper was on<br>Sensationalism in Fiction and Society<br>.<br>Early career<br>Stoker became interested in the theatre while a student through his friend Dr. Maunsell. While working for the<br>Irish Civil Service<br>, he became the theatre critic for the<br>Dublin Evening Mail<br>,<br>[7]<br>which was co-owned by<br>Sheridan Le Fanu<br>, an author of Gothic tales. Theatre critics were held in low esteem, but he attracted notice by the quality of his reviews. In December 1876, he gave a favourable review of Henry Irving's<br>Hamlet<br>at the<br>Theatre Royal<br>in Dublin. Irving invited Stoker for dinner at the<br>Shelbourne Hotel<br>where he was staying, and they became friends. Stoker also wrote stories, and "Crystal Cup" was published by the<br>London Society<br>in 1872, followed by "The Chain of Destiny" in four parts in<br>The Shamrock<br>. In 1876, while a<br>civil servan