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The article shows the figure of Edward Tuckerman Mason as an author, editor and publisher. He was born on 10th April 1847 in New York City (d. 1895). He began his ca-reer as a theatre critic in 1866 in the “New York Word”. This paper presents E.T. Ma-son’s notes the manuscripts of which have been found in the reading room of New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. They present excellent de-scriptions of E.T. Mason’s plays. As every detail of the plays is described in the notes, they retain the ‘charm’ of the characters of Ophelia and Macbeth by Modrzejewska and Booth. Mason’s Salvini’s Othello, Modrzejewska’s Ofelia, Booth’s Macbeth remind of Konstanty Puzyna’s idea to create a permanent section of plays description in Dialog.