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Author: Moreau, Emile >>
Address: Brimon sur Armamgan, Yonne
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: [London]
Date: [1899], [Aug.] 
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: Coquelin is doing a play about Judge Jefferies [sic] that Mansfield played in New York and he suggests Irving play it in London. Miss Marbury will send him the manuscript. While waiting for Irving's opinion he would like to receive the book Irving's son has just published on Jeffries. Thanks in advance.
Published: -
Notes: 'The Life of Judge Jeffreys', 1898, the book by H.B. Irving, sent by BS 5/9/99.
Document Holder: LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker)
Ref.No: 8140    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: Lyceum Theatre (crossed through) Boscastle written at foot
Recipient: Loveday, Henry Joseph "Harry" >>
Address: -
Date: [1899], Aug., 27 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: He hopes all are well. He has enjoyed himself and is doing a lot of work. They will meet on Thursday. He received an unclear letter, now lost, from the East India Service Club which he thinks must have been for Loveday. Bram [Stoker] is somewhere near Aberdeen ... Irving is well. Love to all.
Published: -
Notes: The autumn tour was to begin in Birmingham on 11th September. A digital image of this letter is at http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/col/phl
Document Holder: HLC (Reference: Box 7, Folder 51)
Ref.No: 7827    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: 17 Stratton Street, Piccadilly, W
Recipient: Irving, Henry Brodribb “Harry” >>
Address: -
Date: [1899?] Monday
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: He will be there till eight - can Harry come round any time after 5.30? With dearest love - at home - to Dorothea & to Face - His loving father.
Published: -
Notes: Face was his grandson Laurence Irving, born in 1897. Irving went on tour beginning on 11th September 1899.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/39/3/6)
Ref.No: 1401    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: 17, Stratton Street, Piccadilly W
Recipient: Irving, Henry Brodribb “Harry” >>
Address: -
Date: [1899?] Tues.
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: He supposes Harry is back again and ready for the fray. What about a little daily massage for the throat? He comments on an article in 'Lloyds' [Newspaper] which gave a short account of a meeting "urban gathering" where Harry emphasised the puritanical distaste for the "mere player". It counteracts the mischief caused by the miserable [Clement] Scott.
Published: -
Notes: Clement Scott had implied the immorality of actresses.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/1/37)
Ref.No: 1400    
Author: Aston, Joseph Keech >>
Address: Brockington Grange, Bromyard, Worcester
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1899, Sept., 7 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: He was glad to read Irving was better. He is there for vacation. The drawing room in Dean's Yard has been pulled down for local improvement. He has splendid bust of Hamlet. He has ordered a recep[tion room] with oriel window of five lights into which he wishes, with the bust, to introduce 5 Shakespeare heroines - 4 besides Ophelia. He asks Irving to suggest 4 with pleasing contrast of style of face and dress for an artist, so he can get a sketch from Mess. Powell - a well known painter of stained glass windows.
Published: -
Notes: On blank third page Irving lists: Juliet, Beatrice, Portia and Rosalind. The firm of James Powell & Sons was a major manufacturer of stained glass in this period.
Document Holder: SCL (Reference: RL2/6/306)
Ref.No: 6600    
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