W. J. Lawrence letter to William Archer, 1916 January 14

              2007-0375, Haddington Road, Dublin, January 14th 1916 My dear Archer, As Mr Onions has sent no proof of theElizabethan a er te me 1 write ainly to beg for a sight of it, in case he sh0ttld send it on to you. 1 think also we should see ul1s of the illustrations and their inseri tions as y ex 'erience is that editors, when left to the r own resources, gener 11y blunder in describing lates. Even Lee in his recent edition of his "Life of Shakespeare" (on the whole a goad book of reference), s ,. eaks of the liRe Bull" p>rint as if re lly re resenting the Red Bull. If you still 'ossess the off -rint of'the First Irish Dramatist' sent in October you ight jot d wn on it th t Larding Barry was re 11y David Barry, not James, his younger brother, stated in the article. 1 was forced to r-e const der all the evidence by a j/Jil.t ;enet r tiv€ local criticlsm which scoffed at the idea of lad of seventeen controlling a theatre, entering into legal agree ent and