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LIB/LE/MC/2
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LIB/LE/MC/2
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Letter: Maud Caffin to Lilian Tomlin, 10 September 1894
1894
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1 letter
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Printed letterhead: 'Broadway / Worcestershire' crossed-through; inscribed: 52 Courtfield Gdns / S. Kensington / Sunday / Dear Lil ...'. - Miss Caffin worked in London making costumes for the theatre; the letter includes sketches for head-dresses for characters (for Miss G. Ward and Miss Olga Nethersole in a production of 'King Arthur' at the Lyceum to designs by Burne Jones; and she refers further to Ellen Terry and her gift of one of the beetle's wings from her costume of Lady Macbeth.
In envelope addressed: 'Miss Tomlin / Thorpe Villa / Chester' - crossed through in blue crayon; re-addressed: 'Rathlege / Woolacombe / Nth Devon'. - Post-stamped: 'Chester SP 10 / 94'; inscribed on verso: 'Answered. Sep.13.94'; stamped 'Morthoe / SP 11 / 94'.