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Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: 17 Stratton Street, Piccadilly, W.
Recipient: Lewis, Elizabeth >>
Address: 88 Portland Place, W.
Date: 1902, June, 3 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: If Sunday 20th July is convenient he would like to dine with them. He wishes this were sooner and that he could anticipate the rest of his season with equal pleasure.
Published: -
Notes: With envelope postmarked JU 4 02. Irving gave his final performance at the Lyceum on 19th July 1902.
Document Holder: O (Reference: Dep.c.833, fols.134-36. (Ampleforth Abbey))
Ref.No: 8619    
Author: Terry, Dame Ellen Alice >>
Address: Lyceum Theatre
Recipient: Nettleship, Ada >>
Address: -
Date: 1902, June, 3 
Document Type: Letter (3 p.)
Content Summary: [Bram] Stoker asks her to provide an estimate for the yellow Portia dress. He should have said before that all is changed, and it is a divided account. She can't go on in rags. Edy [Craig] is making one new 'Sans Gêne' dress and turning up another which she is paying for, as she used the management's dresses during her little tour. They would expect her to wear the old ones. Please send as soon as possible.
Published: -
Notes: Dresses for the final season at the Lyceum under the Lyceum Theatre Company Ltd.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/14/20/32(7))
Ref.No: 8813    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: Lyceum Theatre
Recipient: J.F. Taylor & Company >>
Address:
Date: 1902, June, 5 
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: He will feel honoured in the dedication of the book as they suggest. The following is the list of twenty one Shakespeare heroines which he would choose...
Published: -
Notes: Engraved facsimile. 21 copies of the luxury Irving Edition of the New Century Shakespeare were published, each dedicated to one of Irving's chosen female characters. These, in Irving's hand, are: Juliet, Imogen, Ophelia, Desdemona, Rosalind, Portia, Isabella, Mariana, Julia, Beatrice, Hero, Viola, Cordelia, Hermia (inserted from side) Helena, Miranda, Hermione, Perdita, Katharine, Nerissa, Portia (wife of Brutus). Each copy had a printed dedication leaf and was signed by Irving in 1902.
Document Holder: P
Ref.No: 3086    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: Lyceum Theatre
Recipient: Hicks, Sir Edward Seymour George >>
Address: -
Date: 1902, Jun.(?), 5(?) 
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: Thanks for his letter.
Published: -
Notes:
Document Holder: P
Ref.No: 7818    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: Lyceum Theatre
Recipient: Collins, Arthur Pelham >>
Address: [Drury Lane Theatre]
Date: 1902, June, 7 
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: He had thought the performance Collins wrote about the previous night was a matinee. It would be impossible to close the theatre on the night of 3rd.
Published: -
Notes: Crossed through as dealt with. Possibly for a benefit?
Document Holder: P
Ref.No: 9233    
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