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Author: Tenniel, Sir John >>
Address: 10, Portsdown Road, Maida Hill, W.
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: [London]
Date: 1897, June, 26 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: Accepts with pleasure invitation to the Lyceum on Monday. He had assumed from what Irving said the other night at Sir William Agnew's that the invitation might also enable him to see the play, but is told that it does not.
Published: -
Notes: The Jubilee reception.
Document Holder: LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker)
Ref.No: 5369    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: 15A, Grafton Street, Bond Street, W.
Recipient: Twain, Mark >>
Address: [32, Tedworth Square, Chelsea, SW]
Date: 1897, June, 27 
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: Irving greets Twain and invites him to the Lyceum after the play the next day at about 11.30, where he will meet many friends. He has read with pleasure 'Joan of Arc' sent by Twain who has enlivened history. He hopes Twain now feels less painful sense of loss and can come where friends will try to show their love for him.
Published: -
Notes: With part of the envelope. Twain's reply is Letter 3814. His daughter Suzy had died of meningitis in 1896. With thanks to the Mark-Twain-Papers Project.
Document Holder: MTP (Reference: UCLC 46156)
Ref.No: 9126    
Author: Twain, Mark >>
Address: [23 Tedworth Square, Chelsea, SW] London
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: [London]
Date: [1897], [June], [28] Monday
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: He thanks Irving for his good words and wishes he could be there the next night and meet Mr Reid and others of the Prime Ministers whom he had known in their own countries, and Irving himself, Prime Minister in Shakespeare's world-embracing confederation, but he is still in seclusion and fears to go out. He claims them all as friends of his, drinks Irving's health and wishes him well. In spirit he helps Irving represent the hundred & twenty millions who speak the great tongue that is to dominate the earth.
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Notes: The reply to Letter 9126. Jo Whitelaw Reid was special American ambassador at the Queen's Jubilee and Irving entertained the colonial premiers - on Monday 28th June so Twain's letter may have been written the preceding night. He was still mourning the death of his daughter.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/41)
Ref.No: 3814    
Author: Arnold, Sir Edwin >>
Address: 225, Cromwell Mansions, Kensington, SW
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1897, June, 29 
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: It is vain to contend with Irving's grace and generosity. He accedes.
Published:
Notes: See Letters 4410-12. Arnold had returned honorarium for unused poem; probably Irving had returned the money.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/12)
Ref.No: 4413    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Recipient: Farrar, Frederick William >>
Address: -
Date: 1897, June, 30 
Document Type: Letter
Content Summary: Thanks to the Dean after the reading of 'Becket' in Canterbury Cathedral.
Published: -
Notes:
Document Holder: HRR (Reference: Note 2109 F2)
Ref.No: 5850    
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