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Author: Brown, Hannah >>
Address: Selsdon
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1878, Nov., 1 
Document Type: Letter (9 p.)
Content Summary: They received his letter at dinner... Glad to hear of his pleasant drive. They saw a pleasant notice in the Morning Post and other papers of Irving's lecture read at Social Science. She encloses Mr H's and Mrs Jacobs' letters of which she asks him to take care. May she keep Blackie's verses which have a rough grandeur. What an escape in Irving's accident on leaving Dundee. She hopes to hear how they like Jingle. They feared the Bank business might have affected Irving. The papers compare the Drury Lane Hamlet unfavourably to his. They think of leaving in a fortnight as people are beginning to moan....
Published: -
Notes: P.1-3 written by Hannah Brown, the rest dictated to Baroness Burdett-Coutts. In a paper at the Social Science Congress in Glasgow in October Irving gave his views on a National Theatre. The drafts of the lecture are preserved at the Shakespeare Centre Library and Archive, RL2/9/2. He also gave two readings in aid of those hurt by the failure of the City of Glasgow Bank. The Dundee mishap does not seem to be recorded.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/7)
Ref.No: 699    
Author: Brown, Hannah >>
Address: Selsdon
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1878, Nov., 2 
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: "O my prophetic soul." They have always thought that creature no friend of Irving's and she feels it as a woman. Greetings to Edinburgh. (Postscript) Irving took the right decision about the dog. Enclosure returned and good riddance.
Published: -
Notes: Written by Hannah Brown with the postscript dictated to Baroness Burdett-Coutts. The letter refers to hostile criticism.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/7)
Ref.No: 700    
Author: Reid, Thomas Mayne >>
Address: Frogmore House (Nr) Ross, Herefordshire
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1878, Nov., 2 
Document Type: Letter (6 p.)
Content Summary: An enclosed sheet [not present] suggests some connection between them. If this is possible he has been contemplating dramatising several of his novels himself. Several have been crudely staged e.g. 'The Octaroon' by Boucicault, which is Reid's 'Quadroon'. They have good plots and characters and he thinks he can frame them as acting plays not sensational rubbish. There are characters worthy of representation by Irving. Their tone will be pure and picturesque and have sufficient interest to drive indecent drama from the stage which he knows is Irving's object. His pen is at Irving's service.
Published:
Notes: Marked 'A' - answered?
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/36)
Ref.No: 3793    
Author: Brown, Hannah >>
Address: Selsdon Park
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1878, Nov., 9 
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: She has just received Irving's letter on a wretched day. He has had a glorious time as they see from the Fifeshire Journal. Welcome to Glasgow & kindest regards from the Baroness.
Published: -
Notes: Written by Hannah Brown and barely legible.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/7)
Ref.No: 701    
Author: Brown, Hannah >>
Address: [Selsdon Park]
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1878, Nov., 10 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: She enquires about Prince, King & people. Mr [Edwin] Long is there. The letters have all come. How good Irving is.
Published: -
Notes: Written by Hannah Brown and barely legible.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/7)
Ref.No: 702    
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