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Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: 15A, Grafton Street, Bond Street, W.
Recipient: Tennyson, Hallam >>
Address: 72, Eaton Place, Eaton Square
Date: 1879, March, 18 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: Asks Hallam Tennyson to make the appointment for the reading on Sunday at 3pm if that suits his father. Irving finds it difficult to spare a day from rehearsals, which he has recommenced.
Published:
Notes: With stamped envelope. Probably rehearsals for 'The Lady of Lyons' produced on 17th April 1879. A reading of 'The Cup' or 'The Falcon'? By courtesy of the Tennyson Research Centre, Lincolnshire County Council.
Document Holder: TRC (Reference: 3792)
Ref.No: 5513    
Author: Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts >>
Address: S. St [Stratton Street]
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1879, March, 19 
Document Type: Letter (3 p.)
Content Summary: She apologises for not being found especially as she wished to invite him for the next Thursday evening. He can tell her if he calls the next day. Their good friend the Professor [James Tennant?] is slowly getting better and she is sending champagne and grapes. (Postscript) Mr Clough has given her the tickets and she apologises for causing so much trouble.
Published: -
Notes: These may be the tickets for the Drury Lane Benefit, see letter No.777.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/8)
Ref.No: 779    
Author: Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts >>
Address: Stratton St
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1879, March, 24 
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: It is cold, and if Irving thinks of the Children's Hour she is occupied for the next two days with committees and early dinner. She has read the play and praises its poetry and dramatic feeling with appropriate female parts. Whichever part Irving took would be a magnificent historic portrait, but would the public care? She doubts it, as the only feeling to excite is religious, which might not satisfy those who find belief in the poetry of Hamlet, or appeal to modern sympathies.
Published: -
Notes: The Children's Hour was Hannah Brown's name for the time between 5 and 6 pm when Irving often called in at Stratton Street. The play was Tennyson's 'Becket' which had been finished in 1879 and was announced for production from the stage of the Lyceum as 'Eleanor and Rosamund' at about this time.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/8)
Ref.No: 780    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: 15A, Grafton Street, Bond Street, W.
Recipient: Loveday, Henry Joseph "Harry" >>
Address: -
Date: [1879], [March], [24?] Monday
Document Type: Letter (3 p.)
Content Summary: Has been in bed since 8 o'clock the previous night with awful cold which seized him in the afternoon. He will stay there until the evening so dismiss the rehearsal until Wednesday when they will do the "Cottage " scenes & Thursday when Lacy can do his scenes. The day before he thought Forrester could have a turn that night but cannot yet manage it. Put the advert in the programmes - it reads well.
Published: -
Notes: In pencil. Irving was taken ill during the end of the run of 'Hamlet' while 'The Lady of Lyons' was being rehearsed for 17th April. Walter Lacy played Colonel Damas. Forrester played Claudius in 'Hamlet' and possibly Irving thought he might play Hamlet.
Document Holder: ECL (Reference: MS 431)
Ref.No: 7433    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: 15A, Grafton Street, Bond Street, W.
Recipient: Loveday, Henry Joseph "Harry" >>
Address: -
Date: [1879?], [March?] 
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: Get a cab & come to see him at once. It is rather important.
Published: -
Notes: This might be a summons when Irving was taken ill during the run of 'Hamlet'. See Letters 7433 & 7435.
Document Holder: ECL (Reference: MS 431)
Ref.No: 7434    
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