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1900 · réf. 33829 — London: circa 1900. 1900. Very good. - Octavo. Letter penned on two sides of a folded 4-sided sheet of Hotel Victoria London letterhead. Signed "Henrietta Crosman Campbell". Folded once for delivery. Together with a Hotel Victoria envelope addressed to "Mrs. Pond / Room 613". The envelope is soiled & torn. The letter is in very good condition. Henrietta Crosman Campbell writes to Mrs. Pond wife of impresario Major James B. Pond to say that she and her husband will call on the Ponds in their room at the Hotel Victoria London where both couples are staying and that after dining with Mr. Hartzel they will go to the theatre. Henrietta Crosman 1861-1944 was an acclaimed American stage actor. In 1914 she contracted to appear in a silent film for Adolph Zukor's Famous Players and went on to appear in several silent films. When the talkies arrived in the 1930s the movie business started seeking out stage-trained actors. Campbell by then nearly seventy experienced a revival of her career becoming a much-loved veteran movie star in such films as "Pilgrimage" 1933 and "The Royal Family of Broadway 1930. Crosman's second husband was Broadway stage director and producer Martin Campbell. With Crosman he joined the nascent silent film industry and by the 1920s he was a noted film director. London: circa [1900]. unknown