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Published by 1 March ; 44 Maida Vale London W. The card is undated: "Ink Photo." Sprague & Co. London. , 1889
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Toole s entry in the Oxford DNB describes how Toole was desolate, and his health broke , after the Tooles twenty-two year-old daughter Florence died from typhoid fever on in November 1888, contracted a week before when visiting her parents who were performing at Cork. Her mother, Toole s wife Susan, died three and a half months later, in February 1889. Both letter and card are in good condition. They are enclosed in a grubby envelop, with stamp and postmarks, addressed to David Cunningham Esq / Belmont / Antrim / Ireland . Letter and envelope have thick mourning border. ONE: ALS. 1 March 1889. 1p, 12mo. Signed J. L. Toole . He thanks him for his kind and sympathetic letter - the loss of my dear Wife and Daughter has been a terrible blow to me , and he is going abroad for a few weeks. TWO: Lithographic portrait of Toole in character, on 7.5 x 11 cm card. Publishers slug at bottom left, in tiny capitals: "INK PHOTO." SPRAGUE & CO. LONDON. It depicts Toole dressed as a Victorian schoolmaster, with wing-collar shirt and mortar board, with right hand holding up pince-nez to his eyes. Beneath the photograph, in a facsimile of Toole s handwriting: Yours truly "The Don" / J. L. Toole . See image.
Published by Neither item with date or place. First item: London: Toole's Theatre, 1893
The production to which the first item relates was Toole's last before being forced by gout to retire from the London stage. Both items in fair condition, on lightly-aged paper; the first with short closed tear at head. Both printed on one side only. Item One: 33 x 21 cm. Headed 'Mr. J. L. Toole's Company. | THOROUGH-BRED. | PROPERTY PLOT.' Listing, under 'Stage' and 'Hand', all the props needed for the three acts, the last (and shortest) entry reading '[ACT III.] HAND. | Field glasses, cases. Race cards for all. Letter (WILHELMINA). Set of bones (TOSH). Coins (all). 2 tambourines. Banjo (BLENKINSOPP). Letter (JENNINGS.)' At foot of page: 'Properties in Italics brought by Mr. TOOLE.' Item Two: Headed 'Mr. EDWARD A. COVENTRY & Mr. JOHN R. COLLINS' | COMPANY. | "THOROUGHBRED" | CALL'. At foot: 'Stage Manager.' Dimensions: 260 x 210 cm. A form, not completed, with lines for: Date; To receive Scenery; Scenes; Properties; Gas or Electric; Limes; Supers; Band; Company; Understudies.