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Author: Hichens, Robert Smythe >>
Address: Stanley Ghyll Hotel, Boot, Eskdale, Cumberland
Recipient: Stoker, Bram (Abraham) >>
Address: -
Date: [1897], July, 27 
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: His bankers have just informed him that Irving had paid him £125 some time before and he sends thanks. He refers to 'Dracula'. He thinks there is some both humorous and weird business for Irving in the first act
Published: -
Notes: 'The Medicine Man' being written with H.D. Traill.
Document Holder: LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker)
Ref.No: 8123    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: 15A Grafton Street, Bond Street, W
Recipient: Irving, Laurence Sidney Brodribb >>
Address: -
Date: [1897?], [July?], 27 Tuesday
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: If Laurence can be there at six the next day they would drive to Richmond, see Harry(?) & come back to supper afterwards. Send telegram in morning.
Published: -
Notes:
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/39/3/27)
Ref.No: 4248    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: 15A, Grafton Street, Bond Street, W.
Recipient: Craig, Edith Geraldine Ailsa >>
Address: -
Date: 1897, Aug., 2 
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: He wishes he could have seen 'Journeys End', hearing she did well. She was right to stay on with the prospect of work and experience - a member of the Independent Company should be financially independent. He will miss his Sozel with a newly found daughter. He is going to stay in Epping Forest during the Stratford week. Her mother hopes to be at the other Stratford [upon Avon] that night and set out the day before. Send him a paper if anything very good. God bless her.
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Notes: Edy may have been on tour as 'Journeys End' is not recorded in central London in 1897. Irving was about to tour, beginning at Stratford East on 6th September. Suzanne Sheldon replaced Edy Craig as Sozel in 'The Bells'.
Document Holder: BL (Reference: Loan MS 125/27/1 (ETArchive ET HIL-B1))
Ref.No: 7889    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: The Sheringham Hotel, Norfolk
Recipient: Terry, Dame Ellen Alice >>
Address: -
Date: 1897, Aug., 5 
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: From hot London to hotter Sheringham. He left the devilish Lyceum on Tuesday, but has not much to write. He can only go out in the evening in Sheringham, which he compares to Westgate, and mentions its attractions. He met Dolly Carr, there with her aunt Alice, and that day Carr & his wife & Arthur have come. They are looking for a house and Joe says the Treloars are there. Joe & his wife dine with him that night then go. He hopes Ellen is rested in her peaceful looking house - and with pleasant acquaintances. She was right about the [?] article which should not be sanctioned, but is a summing up of Mr Justice Hawkins with a marital dictum from Peachum(?). Cromer seems quite different from the Poppyland they have heard so much about. 'Peter [the Great]' is interesting but difficult and disjointed. He hopes someone may provide a few sidelights. He will get Laurence down in a week or 10 days to add a few things. With this & plans for 'Peter' & Mrs Pat according to post. God bless her.
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Notes: Signed only with Irving's cross and circle symbol. Joseph Comyns Carr and his family were friends and later business associates. Sir William Treloar, a city merchant, was later Lord Mayor of London. The article and its subject are unidentified. Sir Henry Hawkins was a celebrated judge at the time and Peachum a character in 'The Beggar's Opera'. The area around Cromer had been called Poppyland in a book by Irving's old friend the critic Clement Scott. Laurence Irving's play 'Peter the Great' was staged at the Lyceum on 1st January 1898; Mrs Patrick Campbell was a leading actress.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/384/6/4)
Ref.No: 8212    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: The Sheringham Hotel, Norfolk
Recipient: Kerr, Frederick >>
Address: -
Date: 1897, Aug,, 6 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: Greetings and salutations; hopes to see him soon. Afraid just for the present that he must forego Kerr's very kind and tempting proposition as he is in the midst of some work and at rather high pressure(?).
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Document Holder: P
Ref.No: 8582    
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