Autograph Letter Signed, sending an agreement and order for Niagara: “I know I ought to begin the book but I cannot work at a dead wall. I want an order to write at once for a newspaper or a magazine”.2 pp. 6 x 4 inches, fine.Garrick Club, 13 April 1888.
John Hollingshead (1827 –1904), theatrical impresario, journalist and writer. He is best remembered as the first manager of the Gaiety Theatre, London. An innovative producer, Hollingshead brought Gilbert and Sullivan together in 1871 to produce their first joint work, a musical extravaganza called Thespis. Hollingshead started his journalism career in 1854 under the tutelage of Charles Dickens at Household Words magazine and then under W. M. Thackeray at Cornhill Magazine.