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ALL/11/306
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Letter from Sydney Carroll to Herbert Allingham [and draft letter from HJA to Carroll]
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- 03-Dec-34 (Creation)
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2 pieces, Typescript document
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(1867-1936)
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Headed notepaper: Syndey W. Carroll, 18 Charing Cross Road, London WC2. Signed.
'Thank you for your interesting letter with its suggestion that the entertainment tax should be abolished from all theatres where the gross takings are less than £250. a week. I do not think there is the remotest hope of persuading the Chancellor of the Exchequer to agree to such an ideas, desirable though it may from the point of view of the Repertory Companies [...]
Attached: draft manuscript letter from Allingham to Sir suggesting the abovementioned abolition. Signed.
Manuscript figures on verso.
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