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Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Recipient: Not known >>
Address: -
Date: 1897, May, 8 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: Irving would be unable to gratify his request unless there should be an opportunity for him to play Richmond at the Lyceum.
Published: John Wilson, Autograph Letters Catalogue, November 1979.
Notes: Written by Bram Stoker and possibly to Frank [Kemble] Cooper who played the part with Irving in the 1896-97 Lyceum production of 'Richard III'.
Document Holder: P
Ref.No: 4687    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: Lyceum Theatre
Recipient: Shaw, George Bernard >>
Address: -
Date: 1897, May, 9 
Document Type: Letter (6 p.)
Content Summary: Shaw's unfeeling attacks on the helpless suggest he has lost the consciousness of vulgarity. His indifference to the feelings of others explains Irving's frankness. He knows nothing of the paragraphs which perhaps Shaw wrote himself, and returns them. Bram Stoker had written that he would not be able to produce the admirable little play, but on second thoughts, he will if he can give it a fair run. If only for a night or two he will return it, and if Shaw insists in having it back - over to Mansfield. A partnership for him with Mansfield should succeed with such a recommendation! Irving has changed, but only a fool never changes his mind. He will be glad to meet Shaw at any time but this is the only answer to his letters.
Published: -
Notes: An angry reply to a lost letter, in part about 'The Man of Destiny'. The paragraphs Irving refers to may be press cuttings, as he mentions Romeike's cutting service. The part of Napoleon had been written by Shaw for Richard Mansfield. Irving had had unsatisfactory dealings with Mansfield who had owed him money for several years. With a covering note from Ellen Terry to Shaw dated 11th May, questioning Irving's accusation that Shaw worried the helpless, and saying that Irving was silly and she had told him so. She quotes phrases from this letter in a letter to Shaw on 11th May, saying she read it on 10th, and that the phrases are not Irving's. Shaw's reply (Letter 4598) which picks up phrase about weathercocks from this letter is dated 10th May.
Document Holder: BL (Reference: Add.MS.43801.f.91)
Ref.No: 7868    
Author: Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts >>
Address: 1 Stratton Street, W
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1897, May, 10 
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: Her answer is delayed as Irving's letter found her at Dover whence she has just returned. She has portraits and pictures to lend that year to galleries and exhibitions, including the Grafton. She is glad to afford others pleasure by loaning pictures, but they have been resident in London for two years because of her serious illness and the death of Mr Burdett Coutts' mother; she has rearranged her pictures, and as friends want to see them, she had decided to loan none. Although she has refused offers to loan Long's portraits of Irving, she will let him have them for a few months if he takes great care. He can lend them where he likes.She could not refuse as they illustrate his Art as a monument of the Victorian Era.
Published: -
Notes: The Baroness had in the past lent portraits of Irving to the South London Art Gallery. This may relate to the Victorian Era Exhibition marking the Queen's Jubilee where Irving was chairman of the Drama Committee. He was also chairman of the exhibition at the Grafton Galleries. See Letter 8580.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/8)
Ref.No: 906    
Author: Gilbert, Sir Alfred >>
Address: 16, Maida Vale, W.
Recipient: Stoker, Bram (Abraham) >>
Address: [London]
Date: 1897, May, 10 
Document Type: Letter (3 p.)
Content Summary: He does not want to bother Irving and Stoker is always ready to save him. If Irving has not already accepted stewardship of the "Gordon Boys' Home" festival dinner or an invitation to subscribe will Stoker ask him to think of Gilbert who has done both.
Published: -
Notes: The note at head indicated Irving was about to subscribe at the instigation of the Duke of York, 12/5/97.
Document Holder: LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker)
Ref.No: 8054    
Author: Shaw, George Bernard >>
Address: 29 Fitzroy Square, W
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1897, May, 10 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: They will settle this quickly. Irving should not play 'The Man of Destiny' if he does not wish but he must not supress it, and play fair. Press reports have misrepresented the case and are not fair to Shaw, implying he has been bought. Contradiction should come from Irving and leave Shaw to deal with the play elsewhere. He is to see Forbes Robertson and he and Mrs Campbell can play 'The Man of Destiny' well enough which he would have suggested but for Irving's prior claim. Irving should announce he is handing the play to his old lieutenant with Shaw's reluctant consent. He will speak if Irving does not. It is useless his coming to talk. Let him have the answer at once as is about to leave town.
Published: L. Irving, p.605-06; Shaw, Collected letters, Vol.I, p.755-6
Notes: The reply to Letter 7868, typewritten in green ink. Irving replied by sending back the play by Stoker. In 1950 Shaw wrote to the younger Laurence Irving denying he had received one draft and saying he had only ever received one letter in Irving's own hand, after complaining about those written by Stoker and Austin, which contained a grammatical error and amounted to a request to be left alone.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/1/47)
Ref.No: 4598    
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