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Author: Whistler, James Abbot McNeill >>
Address: -
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: [1879?] 
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: Just a reminder - Whistler will call for Irving on his way from his brother's on Sunday morning at half past eleven.
Published: -
Notes: Summarised with permission of Glasgow University.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/42)
Ref.No: 4931    
Author: Everill, Frederick Augustus >>
Address: Lime Lodge, Mortlake
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: [London]
Date: 1879, March, 2 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: He is very grieved and ashamed -is he to play the next night? Please let him play - it will mean river(?) unless Irving is indulgent.
Published: -
Notes: Everill's offence is not elaborated but is described anonymously by Stoker, Vol.I, p.79-81 and probably involved drunkenness. See Letters 6679-80.
Document Holder: SCL (Reference: RL2/6/406(d))
Ref.No: 6678    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: 15A, Grafton Street, Bond Street, W.
Recipient: Stoker, Bram (Abraham) >>
Address: [London]
Date: 1879, March, 2 
Document Type: Letter (3 p.)
Content Summary: Enclosed is cheque in Stoker's name. Pay it in in notes. Where are the cigars? T[urn] O[ver]. Answer Everill's letter as kindly as likes but to this effect - he never plays under Irving's management again and Irving will give him one month's salary. Write that day so that he gets it in the morning and tell him not to come in to theatre. Stoker can also say no one regrets more than Irving the wretched position he finds himself in.
Published: -
Notes: With unaddressed envelope bearing Stoker's note "For use in book re Evervill re Hamlet 1879". See Letters 6678 & 6680. Everill, playing Polonius, was presumably drunk, see Stoker, Vol. I, p.79-81.
Document Holder: SCL (Reference: RL2/6/406(b & c))
Ref.No: 6679    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Recipient: James, Eleanor Mary >>
Address: 10 Pelham Place, South Kensington
Date: 1879, March, 2 
Document Type: Letter
Content Summary: He encloses a private box for the next night - give it away if she cannot use it. He wishes she would come more often. Her name is with Mr Hurst and she is always on the free list.
Published: -
Notes: With envelope; transcript in THM/37/1/19.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/45)
Ref.No: 1610    
Author: Stoker, Bram (Abraham) >>
Address: Royal Lyceum Theatre
Recipient: Everill, Frederick Augustus >>
Address: [London]
Date: 1879, March, 2 
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: Irving in reply sends his deep regret for Everills's sake at last night's occurrence, but he can never play again under Irving's management. Irving will allow him one month's salary until Treasury on 28th. He is not to come to the theatre the next day. The shortest way is the kindest. Everill will know how distressed Irving is on his account, but he has duty to himself and others, and as he told Everill when warning him on Friday night, the enterprise is too big to allow of any risk to the well being of nearly 250 persons. Irving pities Everill's unhappiness but his engagement was with the one stipulation that any failure would end the connection. Irving has no alternative.
Published: -
Notes: Everill's name is pencilled at head of this draft, which closely follows Irving's instructions. See Letters 6678 & 79.
Document Holder: SCL (Reference: RL2/6/406(a))
Ref.No: 6680    
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