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Author: Brown, Hannah >>
Address: Stratton Street
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: [Edinburgh]
Date: 1877, Nov., 2 
Document Type: Letter (8 p.)
Content Summary: She is glad Trin and his master are so pleased. She is busy and will write the next day. They are busy wih Constantinople affairs. Constance [yacht] is safe in Syra. They have read the pamphlet with great interest. She thanks Irving for the glorious post that morning. She is pleased about the reading at Lord Y[oung]'s. They had a telegram that Mr St John had arrived safely at Southampton. She broke down at dinner on Wednesday on not feeling his arm. W.L. [Walter Lacy] read 'Christabel' which she discusses. She is pleased to do anything for Irving who has done so much for her ...
Published: -
Notes: Written by Mrs Brown with occasional explanation of words in another hand.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/7)
Ref.No: 617    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: 15A, Grafton Street, Bond Street, W. [Edinburgh?]
Recipient: Toole, John Laurence >>
Address: -
Date: [1877?], [Nov.?] 
Document Type: Letter (3+ p.)
Content Summary: He will send 20 guineas from Belfast for "the good fund" and a telegram for him to read after the performance. When his correspondent is in Dundee he wishes to be remembered to Stewart - Hodge & Scott of The Adventurer, also Freddie of The Evening News. Where will he be the next week? Interesting figures: a fortnight in Edinburgh under £2000 and £150 for 'Hamlet' morning performance. They say that that night will be great. Bell's which his correspondent wrote.
Published: Ifan Kyrle Fletcher, catalogue 124.
Notes: An incomplete letter with a note that it was addressed to J.L. Toole. It seems to be related to Letter 4992 where the Fund is called the Blantyre Fund. The last sentence might be a misreading or might possibly refer to an article in 'Bell's Life in London' newspaper.
Document Holder: P
Ref.No: 9114    
Author: Brown, Hannah >>
Address: S- St [Stratton Street]
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1877, Nov., 3 
Document Type: Letter (16 p.)
Content Summary: She is glad he is among friends. She discusses the Edinburgh reviews and the admirable pamphlet. On reading it to her Mr [W.H.] Wills said it was well written, but she kept the secret. She has ordered some from Simpkin & Marshall to give to her friends. She later refers to the passage about a National Theatre, and had seen something similar elsewhere. She comments on the relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia. Irving is not to forget the Bishop of Edinburgh whom he met there as well as in Edinburgh. She thinks 'The Dream of Eugene Aram' very tiring for Irving to read, and also remembers 'David Copperfield'. They had a letter from Mr St John in Southampton. Sir Frederick Pollock is horrified at the hideous transparency of 'The Dead Secret' disfiguring the side of the Lyceum.
Published: -
Notes: Dictated to Baroness Burdett-Coutts. The pamphlet is the reply to 'The Fashionable Tragedian' : 'A Letter concerning Mr. Henry Irving addressed to E.R.H.' by Yorick, 1877, which Hannah Brown's letter seems to confirm is entirely by Irving himself. Laurence Irving discovered a partial draft written by Irving, and it is interesting that the publication of the pamphlet is criticised by Austin Brereton.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/7)
Ref.No: 618    
Author: Brown, Hannah >>
Address: S- St [Stratton Street]
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1877, Nov., 7 
Document Type: Letter (12 p.)
Content Summary: The letters of 5th & 6th arrived together. She is sorry she sent the telegram but was worried about 2 letters lying about. She dislikes the malicious articles, particularly that in the Dundee Working Man, but they have the opposite effect on friends. She has just received from Mr Brodie the Scotsman with the astonishing critique of the 'Lyons Mail'. Chambers Edinburgh have sent 3 copies of the pamphlet. She is glad Edinburgh does not seem cold. Remember her to Mrs Young and daughters... Mr Elliot dines that night and plans to read 'The Siege of Corinth' for its picture of Eastern life. The next day Mr Lacy gives 'Comus'. The Baroness asks her to remind him of Christmas Eve....
Published: -
Notes: Dictated to Baroness Burdett-Coutts.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/7)
Ref.No: 619    
Author: Brown, Hannah >>
Address: S- St [Stratton Street]
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1877, Nov., 9 
Document Type: Letter (8 p.)
Content Summary: She sends remembrance of 'Muffleteer' which she does not expect him to wear. Good news in Wednesday's telegram about the reading and his conversation with Toole about the previous year.... She encloses part of a letter from Lady Jane Dundas to the Baroness detailing a triumph in Edinburgh. The readings by Mr Elliot & Mr Lacy were good but she wishes his "diminished seventh" back. The Critchetts asked about Irving and she lent them one of the pamphlets. She lists the dinner guests the previous night. Mr Clough who has a wonderful voice came to read her Aristophanes and she fell asleep. Send a telegram where he is to be found next.
Published: -
Notes: Dictated to Baroness Burdett-Coutts.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/7)
Ref.No: 620    
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