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NEIL, Patrice (Augusta Neil, d. 1927). Two Mdlle. Patrice Programs and one ALS. [London, 1900s – 10s]. Including one 4to printed program for Mdlle. Patrice’s Entertainment, and including the humorist Alfred Leslie; a small folding handbill for her appearance at the Niagara Hall, St. James’ Park billing her as “The Queen of Magic” and “Mrs. C. Lang Neil”; and an ALS from Patrice to Will Goldston dated October 10, 1911, thanking him for a book she has just received, inviting him to tea at her home, and SIGNED on behalf of herself and her husband C. Lang Neil, “With our kind regards, yours sincerely, Patrice Neil.” Sold together with a copy of the prayer card from her funeral. A RARE grouping of ephemera from the career of this accomplished performer.Patrice first worked as an assistant to Charles Bertram, as the lady who vanished in his presentation of the De Kolta Chair. She studied sleight-of-hand with Bertram and Trewey and came into her own as an entertainer not long thereafter. See “A Rich Cabinet of Magical Curiosities” no. 67 for further information.