Catalogue description Album of Marie Saker

Album Amicorum of Marie Saker.

Cover embossed "M.E.S. 1875."

Note on fly-leaf: "This book belonged to Mrs. Saker of Liverpool and came into my possession in February 1895"; signed by Edgar Pemberton. Containing numerous autographs, some with verses and quotations, and many autograph letters, some addressed to Edward Saker, of theatrical figures, British and foreign, and others.

Including : p.1. J.R. Emmet : autograph letter

p.10 Robert Reece: autograph letter

p.14 J.Liston autograph letter

pp.16 & 17. J.L.Toole autograph letter

p.19 Emma Albani : autograph

p.21 Signatures of 13 Italian opera singers, expressing approval of plans for proposed Alexandra Theatre.

p.22-23 Arthur Pinero : signed poem on Mrs. Saker, "The Dream"

p.34 Edmund Kean : signed agreement for appearances at Liverpool, 1830

p.35 Wilkie Collins : signed quotation

p.42 Carl Rosa : signed caricature

p.46 Oscar Wilde : signed note

p.56 Hugh Shimmins : autograph

p.71 Fanny Stirling : signed quotation

p.75 Sarah Bernhardt : signed quotation

p.77 Helena Modjeska : signed quotation

p.77 Ellen Terry : autograph

pp.84 & 86. Ellen Kean : autograph letters

p.91 C[harles] Matthews : autograph letters.

p.101 Ellen Terry : autograph letter

J.L.Toole : autograph letter

pp.107, 115, 119, 127, 131. Autographs of W.E.Gladstone and other political and ecclesiastical figures, 1880.

pp.100 & 113 H[enry] Irving : autograph letters

p.123 Joseph Nightingale letter : autograph

p.129 J.A. Picton letter : autograph letter.

Saker, Marie, 1848-1912, actress and theatre manager

Purchased from Ifan Kyrle Fletcher, 5 June, 1944

Old no.: Eq 1083

Marie O'Beirne was born in Edinburgh in 1848, the daughter of a journalist. She came to Liverpool as an actress to play at the Alexandra Theatre and married its manager, Edward Saker, also of Edinburgh, in 1874. After Saker's death in 1883, she continued the management of the theatre but retired in 1888. She died in 1912, leaving five children.

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