| Author: |
Hicks, Sir Edward Seymour George
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1871-1949 actor, manager |
| Address: |
17, Gloucester Terrace, Hyde Park |
| Recipient: |
Stoker, Bram (Abraham)
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1847-1912 author, Acting Manager at the Lyceum |
| Address: |
18 St Leonard's Terrace, Chelsea, S.W. |
| Date: |
[1898], [Oct.], [1] Friday night |
| Document Type: |
Letter (2 p.) |
| Content Summary: |
He wired Irving at Leigh(?) that evening about producing a fairy play with Mr [George] Edwardes at the Lyceum in afternoons at Christmas time. Irving wired Hicks to see Stoker, whom Hicks missed. They wished to fund production and artists on a percentage, if the theatre was available. Can he see Stoker the next day, or wire; he gives his telephone number. |
| Published: |
- |
| Notes: |
Dated from postmark. The Lyceum was leased to Johnston Forbes Robertson, who included matinees of Maeterlinck's 'Pelléas and Melisande'. |
| Document Holder: |
LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) |
| Ref.No: |
7908 |
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| Author: |
Irving, Sir Henry
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(John Henry Brodribb),
1838-1905 |
| Address: |
369 Strand PO |
| Recipient: |
Shean, Arthur William Charles
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b. 1853 of the Devonshire Club |
| Address: |
Devonshire Club, S.W. |
| Date: |
1898(?), Oct., 6 |
| Document Type: |
Telegram |
| Content Summary: |
"Hearty thanks just going My love to H (sic) Toole forty four Maida Vale. Very anxious to be on committee. Henry Irving." |
| Published: |
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| Notes: |
Unclear whether Irving or Toole wishes to be on Committee. |
| Document Holder: |
P |
| Ref.No: |
6825 |
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| Author: |
Murray, Sir David
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1849-1933 landscape painter |
| Address: |
Grand Hotel, Union Terrace Gardens, Aberdeen |
| Recipient: |
Irving, Sir Henry
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(John Henry Brodribb), 1838-1905 |
| Address: |
- |
| Date: |
1898, Oct., 9 |
| Document Type: |
Letter (2 p.) |
| Content Summary: |
He is living and working there and glad that Irving is soon due, but disappointed he cannot get seats for the few performances in Aberdeen. He recommends his hotel where Mr Mann, a good friend to artists, would make Irving comfortable. It would bring great pleasure to Murray. |
| Published: |
- |
| Notes: |
Irving was taken ill in Glasgow and did not reach Aberdeen. Stoker's note 10/10/98 suggests Murray was sent seats. |
| Document Holder: |
LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) |
| Ref.No: |
5249 |
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| Author: |
Russell, Sir William Howard
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1820-1907 war correspondent, journalist |
| Address: |
37, Queen's Mansions, Victoria Street, S.W. |
| Recipient: |
Irving, Sir Henry
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(John Henry Brodribb), 1838-1905 |
| Address: |
- |
| Date: |
1898, Oct., 10 |
| Document Type: |
Letter (2 p.) |
| Content Summary: |
Thanks for Irving's son's interesting 'Life of Jeffreys' which is as good an Apologia as possible with a bold attempt at whitewash. Russell has been out of the world for six months and no chance of meeting Irving, but he never forgets |
| Published: |
- |
| Notes: |
H.B. Irving's biography of the brutal Judge Jeffreys. |
| Document Holder: |
LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) |
| Ref.No: |
5324 |
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| Author: |
Irving, Sir Henry
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(John Henry Brodribb),
1838-1905 |
| Address: |
Glasgow |
| Recipient: |
Loveday, Henry Joseph "Harry"
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1839-1910 stage manager at Lyceum, etc. |
| Address: |
- |
| Date: |
1898, [Oct.], [11?] |
| Document Type: |
Letter |
| Content Summary: |
If there is anything to say that and the next night, and there will be till the next week, he would try Stoker who is strong and willing. He is taking a heavy sleeping draught that night and hopes it will do him good. No chance for the next week. We musn't have the actors making speeches. |
| Published: |
L. Irving, p.623. |
| Notes: |
Typewritten transcript. On the verge of Irving's collapse with pleurisy and pneumonia. |
| Document Holder: |
THM (Reference: THM/37/1/38) |
| Ref.No: |
2484 |
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