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Author: Mathews, Sir Charles Willie >>
Address: 5 Lennox Gardens, S.W.
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1898, April, 4 
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: "Yes!"
Published: -
Notes: At the time of the Clement Scott affair, but Irving's query is not known. For further information see Letter 2193.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/1/38)
Ref.No: 2192    
Author: Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts >>
Address: 1 Stratton Street, W
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1898, April, 4 [i.e.5] 
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: Irving has closed his door as he is busy that week. Is he free for supper the next night (Wednesday) at 11.30? They are going to Julius Caesar for the first time and would like him to join the party afterwards. She has been shut up and gone nowhere over Easter. (Postscript) She would like to discuss his son's wonderful... poem play.
Published: -
Notes: The letter is wrongly dated. 'Julius Caesar' was Beerbohm Tree's production at Her Majesty's Theatre. Laurence Irving's 'Peter the Great' ran until 14th February, and 'The Medicine Man' was due to open on 4th May.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/8)
Ref.No: 909    
Author: Le Sage, Sir John Merry >>
Address: [Daily Telegraph?]
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: [1898], [April], [5?] 
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: He encloses the paragraph written by [Clement] Scott about which Sir Edward [Lawson] has been in touch. The only additional words are those in pencil at the end of the first sentence to which Sir Edward sees no objection. If Irving approves of the statement altogether will he initial it and then he hopes the wretched business will be settled.
Published: -
Notes: Typewritten and with an ms. copy of Scott's statement and a typewritten transcript of it: in the form of a letter from Clement Scott to Sir Edward Lawson apologising for his article in 'Great Thoughts' 1897 attacking actresses. Address and date have been torn off.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/1/38)
Ref.No: 1882    
Author: Mathews, Sir Charles Willie >>
Address: 5 Lennox Gardens, S.W.
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1898, April, 5 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: He forgot to tell Irving that Sir Edward Lawson is back and will be delighted to receive an answer from Irving and Colleagues putting an end to this incident, at the office of the '[Daily] Telegraph'. Mathews' address for the next 10 days will be Riviera(?) Palace Hotel, Nice.
Published: -
Notes: On the Clement Scott affair. See also letters from Lawson and Sir John Le Sage.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/1/38)
Ref.No: 2193    
Author: Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts >>
Address: 1 Stratton Street, W
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1898, April, 6 
Document Type: Letter (3 p.)
Content Summary: If Irving sees any of the donors of the Memorial Bed offer their thanks until they can acknowledge them. She invites him to her little supper. She had said 11.30 but they would be later so he need not be put off. (Postscript) They go to St Leonards on Saturday for a brief stay.
Published: -
Notes: It is not known where the bed was located - possibly at the Brompton Cancer Hospital? For the supper, see Letter 909.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/8)
Ref.No: 910    
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