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Author: Dobson, Henry Austin >>
Address: Board of Trade, Whitehall Gardens, S.W.
Recipient: Stoker, Bram (Abraham) >>
Address: [Lyceum Theatre, Strand]
Date: 1898, July, 21 
Document Type: Postcard (1 p.)
Content Summary: If he suggests a competent translator of 'Cyrano' give him an idea of when it is wanted, and possible honorarium.
Published: -
Notes: On a correspondence card.
Document Holder: LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker)
Ref.No: 7715    
Author: Dobson, Henry Austin >>
Address: 75 Eaton Rise, Ealing, W.
Recipient: Stoker, Bram (Abraham) >>
Address: Lyceum Theatre, Strand
Date: 1898, July, 22 
Document Type: Postcard (2 p.)
Content Summary: They can rely on his discretion. His friend Cosmo Monkhouse an admirer of 'Cyrano' would undertake translation. He is a respected poet familiar with the old vocabulary in the play. Onslow Ford and Mrs Nettleship can tell Irving about him. He would submit a sample version of the last act, and Dobson who has known him for almost 40 years would help him if asked.
Published: -
Notes: On a correspondence card. The envelope marked Private and postmarked JY 23 98. Irving had purchased the English rights of the play. William Cosmo Monkhouse, 1840-1901, was poet, art critic and colleague of Dobson's at the Board of Trade.
Document Holder: LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker)
Ref.No: 7716    
Author: Webster, Benjamin >>
Address: 31, Bedford St, Covent Garden
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: [London]
Date: [1898], July, 22 
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: On tidying his box for the theatre he has found the Dress Suit made for 'The Medicine Man'. Apologises but would be glad to buy it as there should be enough in the wardrobe for the tour.
Published: -
Notes: And: say shall need dress suit 26/7/98. On the back of this letter is a note possibly by Irving "Wedy or Thursday had I better stay in Paris or go Hotel Normandie?"
Document Holder: LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker)
Ref.No: 5417    
Author: Labouchère, Henry Du Pré >>
Address: 5, Old Palace Yard, S.W.
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: [1898], July, 23 
Document Type: Postcard
Content Summary: He asks Irving the next time he is in the Commons to stand in front of the bust of Oliver Cromwell which has just been put up. Irving is more like Cromwell than anyone else and with a little "get-up" might be it exactly. Why is there no play about Cromwell? Labouchère does not believe in 'Cyrano' in English. It reads better than it acts - it is not only the acting of Coquelin but the rhythm of the French words that carries it through, which would be lost in English.
Published: L. Irving , p.438 (in part, wrongly dated)
Notes: 'Cyrano de Bergerac' was first produced in 1898.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/1/24)
Ref.No: 2016    
Author: Aidé, Hamilton (Charles Hamilton) >>
Address: Ascot Wood Cottage, Ascot, Berks.
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: [1898], [July], [24?] 
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: Many years before he sent Irving the sketch of a melodrama he would have liked if not producing Shakespeare at the Lyceum. He wrote the play and put it away, not seeing a suitable actor for the chief character. As Irving now sometimes descends from Shakespeare he might like to see it. There is no part for Ellen Terry, the only individual woman being suited to Lady Bancroft, who liked it. He knows Irving is rehearsing - but let him know. He thinks 'Cyrano' unsuitable for England as it is too French and intellectual. He will be in London from 7th after which he hopes to see Irving.
Published: -
Notes: Asked to send, BS 25/7/98. This might be the play 'Two Brothers' shown to Irving in 1889.
Document Holder: LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker)
Ref.No: 7610    
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