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Author: Brown, Hannah >>
Address: [Torquay]
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: [1877?] 
Document Type: Letter
Content Summary: Part of the extract pleases her immensely, but she doesn't care about Kean or Garrick. She likes that which is, and how could Irving imitate them! There is but one Richard in their generation...
Published: C.B. Patterson, Angela Burdett-Coutts, p.194.
Notes: An extract from a letter not in the collection. Referring to Irving's Richard III which opened in January 1877.
Document Holder: Pd
Ref.No: 568    
Author: Dubois, Frederick Thomas >>
Address: 15, Kings Street, Cheapside, London
Recipient: Jennings, Henry James >>
Address: 53 Lincoln's Inn Fields
Date: 1877, June, 7 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: He has seen Mr Irving who refuses to increase allowance to Mrs Irving by £100. He will undertake the premium on his Life Policy and he will pay for a governess to be engaged quarterly but if she is non-resident the sum of £60 pa would not be acceptable rate for the tuition of two little boys for a few hours a day. Irving will send a cheque for the lady's salary every 3 months to pay for books, drawing material etc. As to his childrens' visits to him he wishes to act as considerately as possible to Mrs Irving but she must not treat them as a concession and surround them with difficulties.
Published: -
Notes: Solicitor's long hand copy of original letter.
Document Holder: BTC (Reference: 2007/0037)
Ref.No: 6029    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: 15A, Grafton Street, Bond Street, W.
Recipient: Loveday, Henry Joseph "Harry" >>
Address: -
Date: [1877?], [June?], [16?] 
Document Type: Letter (3 p.)
Content Summary: Send "my envelope" to him there as Walter will take it. Leave Tisdale's [Tisdall's] name for a good box that night. Advertise the Manchester arrangement in good papers from the next Monday. Send copy to Wilkinson who will see to it. He will take Loveday down that night so send his luggage separately.
Published: -
Notes: This may refer to the Saturday night when Irving, Loveday and Frank Marshall left at midnight for Dublin to give a reading, returning for the performance on Monday 18th June. Walter Collinson was Irving's dresser and manservant. The collection contains an unattached envelope addressed to Loveday at the Stage door, Lyceum Theatre. It is not known whether this Wilkinson is the man known to Ellen Terry (see Letter 7424).
Document Holder: ECL (Reference: MS 431)
Ref.No: 7426    
Author: Reeves, John Sims >>
Address: Grange Mount, Norwood
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1877, July, 13 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: Thanks Irving for kind note and asks him to thank Miss Bateman for her thoughtfulness. He would prefer coming to see Irving on the 23rd as he leaves for Italy on the 24th. He hopes Irving is keeping well despite all his anxiety and fatigue.
Published: -
Notes:
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/35)
Ref.No: 3429    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: 348 Oxford Road, Manchester (15A, Grafton Street, Bond Street, W. crossed through)
Recipient: Brown, Hannah >>
Address: 1 Stratton St, Piccadilly, London
Date: 1877, Aug., 10 
Document Type: Letter (3 p.)
Content Summary: He is looking forward to seeing her soon and conversing with such a good friend. He will be glad to leave that place. The enemies are bitter and the friends freezing. She cannot think what a comfort Trin (his dog) is to him. He loves Irving more each day. Irving hopes to hear good news of her the next day.
Published: L. Irving, p.290 (extract).
Notes: With stamped addressed envelope, indicating it reached London on 11 August. A typewritten transcript is in THM/37/1/18. Manchester audiences still preferred Barry Sullivan to Irving.
Document Holder: BTC (Reference: TCW/M/000255)
Ref.No: 576    
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