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Autograph Collection: Crowhurst album

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Autograph book (formerly A10), bequeathed to the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre by Mrs Alice Crowhurst (born 1878, daughter of Charles Rainbow), wife of John Veness Crowhurst. She retired in 1947, after more than fifty years service as Box Office Manager at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. However, the volume appears to be inscribed 'Minna R. Crowhurst' (1884-1947), the daughter of John J. Crowhurst, veterinary surgeon (died 1923). The autographs and messages, on the first forty pages, date from between 1906 and 1943 and are mainly of theatrical figures. Some of the remaining pages have been used for 'commonplace' entries (poems etc).