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Author: Brown, Hannah >>
Address: Selsdon
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1878, Sept., 20 
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: Irving's letters are delightful and cheering - others think of Christmas too. She wishes she could be behind the president's chair for Irving's Saturday meeting with Macbeth... He would have enjoyed the previous day - a Harvest Homing! (in another hand). (Postscript) Irving would have well understood the quaint honest words of the very old to the very young - a Caleb Plummer of 92 singing a song of 15 verses...
Published: -
Notes: Written by Hannah Brown. Caleb Plummer is a character in 'Dot' dramatised from 'The Cricket on the Hearth'.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/7)
Ref.No: 690    
Author: Bateman, Sidney Frances >>
Address: 9 Albany Courtyard, Piccadilly
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: [1878], Sept., 21 
Document Type: Letter (8 p.)
Content Summary: She has bought the lease of Sadler's Wells, the contract signed on Wednesday, and intends to work it as a country theatre, with low prices, pantomime, stars or other companies. She describes the progress of the building, the financing, term of their lease and her plans. She will move house. The family are all well. She is glad Irving is going splendidly and hopes he is not tired and will wrap up. All about her business affairs is confidential. (Postcript:) She sends the enclosed, by the man who did the Shakespeare, and asks Irving to return it as it is her souvenir of the past.
Published: L. Irving, p.305-06 (not quite complete).
Notes: The souvenir - possibly a portrait - is unidentified.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/1/18)
Ref.No: 323    
Author: Irving, Henry Brodribb “Harry” >>
Address: 10 Gilston Road
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: [1878?], Sept., 22 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: Their father wanted to know the names of their favourite school-fellows which are Edgar and Hugo. He enjoyed seeing 'Hamlet' at Leicester.
Published: -
Notes: The Lyceum Company toured to Leicester in August 1878, and the paper is watermarked 1878. The letter is not signed and was probably not sent.
Document Holder: BTC (Reference: 2007/0037)
Ref.No: 8969    
Author: Mahaffy, Sir John Pentland >>
Address: [Dublin?]
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: [Dublin?]
Date: [1878?], [Sept.?] Friday
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: He accepts the invitation for Sunday and supposes that as it is Sunday it will be a quiet party. Lord Randolph [Churchill] would have been glad to accept but was in Westport and might not be back.
Published: -
Notes: Lord Randolph Churchill was in Ireland with his father, who was Lord Lieutenant, from 1877-80.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/29)
Ref.No: 2096    
Author: Paget, Lord Alfred Henry >>
Address: 56, Queen Anne Street
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1878, Oct., 1 
Document Type: Letter (3 p.)
Content Summary: Off next week to India with the Prince of Wales and would like to say good-bye. Irving stands first amongst his fellow professionals and he wishes him success in his talented career. He hears Irving is overcrowded and will only look behind one evening to say farewell but if Irving's own Box is vacant he would bring two of his girls [daughters?] who are great admirers of Irving.
Published: -
Notes:
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/33)
Ref.No: 1827    
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