title in red and black, A.L.s. from Bram Stoker to Thomas P.Fowler of New York dated 1904 tipped in at begining, "My dear Fowler, I told Sir Henry about the letter & he is awfully sorry he never received it ", thanking Fowler for an invitation which Irving would have been unable to accept as "he has had such an overwhelming amount of work to do that he has had to refuse all pleasures of all kinds ", on Plaza Hotel notepaper with envelope, Fowler bookplate, original blue cloth blocked in green and silver, slightly rubbed, New York & London, 1904; Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving, 2 vol., plates, bookplate of O.S.Thomson of Salt Lake City, newspaper article on Irving and Dracula loosely inserted, original cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, spines water-stained, New York & London, 1906, first American editions , 8vo (3) Bram Stoker was fascinated by Irving and, having met the actor following his performance of Hamlet in Dublin in 1876, he and his wife moved to London for Stoker to become Irving's assistant and manager of the Lyceum Theatre, roles he filled for many years. Irving's charisma and overbearing manner were such that he is believed to have been the model for Stoker's Count Dracula in his famous novel of 1897. This work is another supernatural novel concerning the attempt to revive the mummy of an ancient Egyptian queen.