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Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: Grafton St
Recipient: Scott, Isabel Busson >>
Address: -
Date: 1879. Feb., 3 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: Apologising that he could not meet her as he had arranged for a party to meet his landlord [Augustus Walter] Arnold, whom he dare not offend.
Published: Ifan Kyrle Fletcher catalogue 198
Notes: Irving leased the Lyceum Theatre from A.W. Arnold.
Document Holder: P
Ref.No: 9066    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: 15A Grafton Street, Bond Street, W
Recipient: James, Eleanor Mary >>
Address: 10 Pelham Place, South Kensington
Date: 1879, Feb., 4 
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: He hopes she will come to Hamlet on Thursday. He has a reason.
Published: -
Notes: With mourning envelope. Thursday was Irving's birthday, 6th February.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/45)
Ref.No: 1597    
Author: Whistler, James Abbot McNeill >>
Address: -
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: [1879?] 
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: Accepts invitation with great pleasure. On Sunday, he will hope for Irving there, also by about 12 o'clock.
Published: -
Notes: Summarised with permission of Glasgow University.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/42)
Ref.No: 4930    
Author: Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts >>
Address: 1 Stratton Street
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1879, Feb., 6 
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: She sends some lemon bunns(?) with every good wish. She has photographic souvenirs and a little card bearer she will offer... for his Birthday, by her and her true and affectionate friend who is always with them in spirit and memory. She will remedy one thing about the photographs in the arrangements for the Day which they had planned.
Published: -
Notes: With matching envelope: 'With a parcel Henry Irving Esq.' delivered by hand. The Baroness refers to her dead companion Hannah Brown.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/1/19)
Ref.No: 774    
Author: Chippendale, Mary Jane >>
Address: 32, Broad St, Bloomsbury
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: [1879], [Feb.], [10] Monday
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: Mrs B[ernard] Beere has asked her to play Madame Deschappelles for her the next Saturday morning. Does he object? If so she will refuse. She would have refused without troubling Irving except for a continuance.
Published: -
Notes: Lyceum receipt stamp 11 Feb 79. It was customary to ask for such permission - the continuance presumably meant she had played the part from 'The Corsican Brothers' for Mrs Beere before. For her response to Stoker's reply see Letter 7625.
Document Holder: LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker)
Ref.No: 5108    
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