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Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: 15A, Grafton Street, Bond Street, W. [Edinburgh?]
Recipient: Toole, John Laurence >>
Address: -
Date: [1877?], [Nov.?] 
Document Type: Letter (3+ p.)
Content Summary: He will send 20 guineas from Belfast for "the good fund" and a telegram for him to read after the performance. When his correspondent is in Dundee he wishes to be remembered to Stewart - Hodge & Scott of The Adventurer, also Freddie of The Evening News. Where will he be the next week? Interesting figures: a fortnight in Edinburgh under £2000 and £150 for 'Hamlet' morning performance. They say that that night will be great. Bell's which his correspondent wrote.
Published: Ifan Kyrle Fletcher, catalogue 124.
Notes: An incomplete letter with a note that it was addressed to J.L. Toole. It seems to be related to Letter 4992 where the Fund is called the Blantyre Fund. The last sentence might be a misreading or might possibly refer to an article in 'Bell's Life in London' newspaper.
Document Holder: P
Ref.No: 9114    
Author: Brown, Hannah >>
Address: S- St [Stratton Street]
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1877, Nov., 3 
Document Type: Letter (16 p.)
Content Summary: She is glad he is among friends. She discusses the Edinburgh reviews and the admirable pamphlet. On reading it to her Mr [W.H.] Wills said it was well written, but she kept the secret. She has ordered some from Simpkin & Marshall to give to her friends. She later refers to the passage about a National Theatre, and had seen something similar elsewhere. She comments on the relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia. Irving is not to forget the Bishop of Edinburgh whom he met there as well as in Edinburgh. She thinks 'The Dream of Eugene Aram' very tiring for Irving to read, and also remembers 'David Copperfield'. They had a letter from Mr St John in Southampton. Sir Frederick Pollock is horrified at the hideous transparency of 'The Dead Secret' disfiguring the side of the Lyceum.
Published: -
Notes: Dictated to Baroness Burdett-Coutts. The pamphlet is the reply to 'The Fashionable Tragedian' : 'A Letter concerning Mr. Henry Irving addressed to E.R.H.' by Yorick, 1877, which Hannah Brown's letter seems to confirm is entirely by Irving himself. Laurence Irving discovered a partial draft written by Irving, and it is interesting that the publication of the pamphlet is criticised by Austin Brereton.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/7)
Ref.No: 618    
Author: Brown, Hannah >>
Address: S- St [Stratton Street]
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1877, Nov., 20 
Document Type: Letter (8 p.)
Content Summary: His amusing and interesting letter just received - but she has been worried as The Emerald is an odd stone. She remembers the D- L- Belfast theatre as charming. She is pleased the Hendersons liked the King. Send them a telegram that he is safe. The day before the Belgian Minister came (Baron Solognes?) and was enthusiastic about 'The Lyons Mail' and Irving's other roles. She is glad the Comforters were of use. They are glad he had a torchlight procession proposed, and could refuse it....
Published: -
Notes: Dictated to Baroness Burdett-Coutts. The 'comforters' are the 'muffleteers' sent to Irving.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/7)
Ref.No: 623    
Author: Brown, Hannah >>
Address: S- St [Stratton Street]
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1877, Nov., 23 
Document Type: Letter (8 p.)
Content Summary: Trin has been in a fight. An enclosed letter refers to her "Shadow Mother" relationship and the professor's words. Has he received her letters and seen the favourable remarks about what he said about critics? A letter from Mr Bartlett in Constantinople will be sent to Irving but is presently retained by the Baroness for business. Please return Mrs Blackie's letter. The dinner went well. It is amusing how people read and act Shylock to the best of their abilities exactly the same every time and with the same inflexion. Good wishes & to Trin.
Published: -
Notes: Dictation for Mrs Brown probably not by the Baroness except for heading note and address. Laurence Irving states that Irving did not consider 'The Merchant of Venice' before going to Venice with the Baroness in 1879.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/7)
Ref.No: 635    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: Shelburne Hotel, Dublin
Recipient: Ledger, Edward >>
Address: [London]
Date: 1877, Nov., 26 
Document Type: Letter
Content Summary: His attention has been called to a speech he supposedly made at a public dinner in Edinburgh referring to newspaper reporters and critics in insulting terms and he wishes to put himself right. The dinner was a private one and they discussed a scurrilous pamphlet which he was then told was by four Edinburgh reporters. In reply to his health being proposed he referred in a bantering way to untrained dramatic critics and occasional black sheep with this pamphlet exclusively in mind. He had thanked a fellow guest for kindly and able criticism in his daily paper and invited him and fellow critics to supper during the following week. "The Press" had been duly toasted. The next day in the same daily paper there was a lengthy and inaccurate report of his jesting words at a private dinner with no allusion to their cause. He asks if such treatment was justifiable. In nearly every city he had visited he had been treated with courtesy by the Press and he numbered many of its members among his personal friends.
Published: The Era, No.2045, Dec., 2, 1877.
Notes: Irving had been greatly upset by the attack on his acting in 'The Fashionable Tragedian', 1877, later revealed as by William Archer and Robert Lowe. This letter is also reprinted by Austin Brereton, Vol.I, p.232-34, but misdated 5th December and not as to the Editor of 'The Era'. It was also sent to 'The Daily News' and probably to all major papers.
Document Holder: Pd
Ref.No: 7039    
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