Letter from the actor Sir Henry Irving to Mr. Lestocq.
Inscription
[embossed] LYCEUM THEATRE
[handwritten] April 21st 1888
Dear Mr. Lestocq
Many thanks for your kind offer, but all arrangements are already made.
Yours faithfully
Henry Irving
Notes
Alan Cole
Sir Henry Irving (1838-1905) was an English actor-manager.
See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Irving
All I can find is that W. Lestocq was a theatrical agent and sometime playwright. He wrote ‘A Farce in Three Acts" (by Harry Nichols and W. Lestocq, 1894).