BURNAND F. C.: (1836-1917) English comic writer and playwright, remembered as the librettist of Arthur Sullivan´s opera Cox and Box. An illustrated A.L.S., F. C. Burnand, three pages, 8vo, London, 17th June 1888, to Mills. Burnand states that he can not manage an engagement on Thursday 12th ´as I am bound to Irving for a dinner, but date was uncertain & tonight he said he had fixed the 12th (as I understood him), but unless the Lyceum is closed on that evening I think he must have made a mistake in the date & means Saturday´, and therefore asks not to be included, further writing ´I might suggest Greenwich to him & we could go down together´ and concluding by thanking his correspondent and remarking ´but I mustn´t leave you in an uncertainty´. Beneath his signature Burnand has added a charming original pen and ink drawing of a steam-powered ferry heading towards Greenwich with several passengers on board. About EX Henry Irving (1838-1905) English stage actor, closely associated with the Lyceum Theatre, and the first actor to be awarded a knighthood (1895).