LETTER: Autograph letter signed, "E.T."
.[Terry, Ellen.]. Autograph letter, signed "E.T.". [Illegible]: Oct., 1914. $400
4 pages, square 8vo; previous folds, small stain on p. [1], else very good. Addressed only to "my dear child," (although doubtful that this would have referred to one of Terry's two children, given that she signs the letter "E.T."). At the time that she was writing, Terry was touring Australia and the United States, delivering lectures on the topics of letters, women, and children in Shakespeare's plays. Terry's eyesight was already quite poor at the time she wrote this, and much of it is rather illegible. She begins rather tragically: "No my dear child you must not come to say good bye--PLEASE--this is good-bye. For indeed I feel inclined to turn away every time I see someone I know coming towards me..." The content then shifts to the seasoned (retired, actually) actress giving advice regarding work and play acting ("Good work is better than early rising"), signing off "God bless you...& I'll hope some day I may see you acting ever so well".
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