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Author: Labouchère, Henry Du Pré >>
Address: House of Commons Library
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: [1889?], July, 26 12.30
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: He has been waiting & listening to some bores for the last hour in hopes of their stopping & letting him move an amendment of which he had given notice on the next vote, so as to get to Irving's supper but alas he now gives it up in despair.
Published: -
Notes: Labouchère was re-elected to Parliament in 1880 and it is not clear to which supper this refers.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/28)
Ref.No: 4661    
Author: Parkinson, Joseph Charles >>
Address: 23 Gt George Street, Westminster, London, S.W.
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1889, Aug., 6 
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: Irving has given him three very happy days and he enjoyed anticipating the success of Irving's next venture. He has once again enjoyed their quiet sympathetic confidential talks and Ramsgate now has a new association for him. He refers to a young friend talking of 15 on one tricycle! Irving might hint to East that the questions about his Company were not idle curiosity but to see if Irving and Parkinson (and perhaps Toole and Yates) should invest a few thousands in it - having an inclination to invest in maritime hotel property they are considering, but the data provided is too meagre. Thanks for a delightful visit.
Published: -
Notes: At head is a note about not forgetting the Argus, probably a newspaper.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/1/29)
Ref.No: 2302    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: 15A, Grafton Street, Bond Street, W.
Recipient: Terry, Dame Ellen Alice >>
Address: [Berlin?]
Date: [1889], [Aug.], [7] 
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: She was right that John Coleman's book was stupid, and he sent it back registered. How nice to be a windbag, one would feel so light and airy. He had a letter that morning from Sargent asking for my lady [Lady Macbeth] for the Paris salon next May and before then for Manchester. He agrees to both but not for his portrait to go to some other exhibition. His address is Fladbury Rectory, Pershore, Worcestershire. Both the Kendals have gone long ago, he hopes never to return near him. Kindest greeting to the Hollanders(?) & love to Edie. He will send Hollander some cigars but not the little packet as it may not reach him at his present address where he hopes they will all be before starting. Her letter came last night. With love. (Postscript:) He hears George is back and all right again.
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Notes: John Coleman's book 'The Truth about The Dead Heart', which opened in September 1889, bears the date 1890, so this might be the manuscript, or refer to Watts Phillips' original novel or play. John Singer Sargent's letter asking to borrow his portrait of Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth (Letter 3820) is dated 6th August and he had received Irving's reply by 8th August. Irving disliked Sargent's portrait of him and it disappeared. Victor Hollaender was later music director for Ellen Terry. George Terry who was Ellen's brother worked at the Lyceum. Ellen Terry marked the "windbag" sentence on the letter.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/384/6/4)
Ref.No: 8208    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: Lyceum Theatre
Recipient: Wingfield, Lewis Strange >>
Address: -
Date: 1889, Aug., 27 
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: He thanks Wingfield for his kind remembrance. The little fact he had discovered about the tricolour - that after the taking of the Bastille it was wider. He saw an interesting collection of [?] in Paris and [?] a portrait of Talleyrand as an Abbé in a legal like coat.
Published: -
Notes: Barely legible but dealing with 'The Dead Heart'. This may refer to Wingfield's letter 4554 or possibly 4555.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/14/9/8(1))
Ref.No: 4556    
Author: Burnand, Sir Francis Cowley >>
Address: 18, Royal Crescent, Ramsgate
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: [1889?], Sept., 19 
Document Type: Letter
Content Summary: He refers to Zola's 'Le Rêve' which he recommended to Irving the year before. He will do a scenario and Alfred Austin the dialogue. Now it has been made into an opera in France shouldn't Irving get the operatic scenario with a view to putting it on?
Published: -
Notes: The letter is probably a joke. 'Le Rêve' was published in France in 1888.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/19)
Ref.No: 994    
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