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Earl Grey Henry George Grey 3rd Earl Grey Liberal politician. Autograph Letter Signed to Tom Taylor editor of Punch praising a performance of his play ‘The Ticket-of-Leave Man’.

Best.-Nr. 25979 — 2 June no year but 1863 and on paper watermarked with that date; on letterhead of 13 Carlton House Terrace. See the entry for Grey and Taylor in the Oxford DNB. 2pp 12mo. On first leaf of bifolium. In good condition lightly aged. Folded twice. Begins: ‘Dear Mr Taylor - / I am just come home from seeing “the ticket of leave man” & before I go to bed I must thank you for an evening of very great enjoyment.’ It pleased him ‘to see so good a play not taken from the French but really English the play was in fact adapted from the French & teaching the public what is true instead of encouraging a popular delusion of the day’. Taylor has been ‘very lucky too’ in his actors and ‘the whole play is capitally got up & I do not know that I ever enjoyed one more’. Good firm valediction: ‘Very faithfully / Grey’. 2 June [no year, but 1863, and on paper watermarked with that date]; on letterhead of 13 Carlton House Terrace. unknown