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Author: Cross, Charles James >>
Address: Brentford
Recipient: Irving, Florence >>
Address: [London]
Date: 1878, July 2 
Document Type: Letter (3 p.)
Content Summary: He brings her up to date. Unable to get an appointment, he wrote to Irving on 27th May. "if Irving is too busy to see him he must work by correspondence. Cross is also very busy. Mrs Irving's money is a month overdue. The cheque book and money on credit has not been arranged. He encloses Redfern's bill £3.5.9 - who will pay? Irving promised to settle quarter's insurance paid on 7th March. As Irving suggested the boys are continuing with the governess Miss Kerr with Mrs Morgan's children. P.S. Mrs Irving has suggested it would save trouble if Irving added £100 per annum to her allowance and she dealt with everything." Cross has had no reply and other steps must be taken.
Published: -
Notes: The tailors Redfern & Sons are not said to have opened a London establishmnet until 1881, but this might refer to clothes for Irving's sons mentioned in Letter 8538.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/39/3/29)
Ref.No: 8541    
Author: Harrowby, Henry Dudley Ryder >>
Address: -
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1878, July, 18 
Document Type: Misc.Document (1 p.)
Content Summary: Admit the bearer to the Gallery of the House of Lords.
Published: -
Notes: Baroness Burdett-Coutts' letter of the same date refers to this.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/8)
Ref.No: 1152    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: [London?]
Recipient: Loveday, Henry Joseph "Harry" >>
Address: -
Date: [1878?], [July?] 
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: Has Loveday looked out the things to lend to Miss Cavendish? If not, do it that day as she starts her tour on Monday.
Published: -
Notes: On the bluish paper also used by Ellen Terry and therefore possibly of later date and probably after Irving became manager of the Lyceum. The actress Ada Cavendish went on tour to America in August 1878, but also toured in Britain in later years. She had acted with Irving in 1870 and in 1885 married his friend Frank Marshall.
Document Holder: ECL (Reference: MS 431)
Ref.No: 7429    
Author: Bateman, Sidney Frances >>
Address: -
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: [1878], [July] Sunday evening
Document Type: Letter
Content Summary: She doesn't include the profit and loss account as she thinks Irving would prefer Mr Charman [Sharman?] to explain it to him. She will be at the theatre the next day at 12, and is anxious to help her friend with future arrangements. She does not want him to take the theatre off her hands unless it suits his purpose. She wishes this to be his only consideration.
Published: L. Irving, p. 304-05.
Notes: Typewritten transcript. On August 31 Mrs Bateman issued a public statement that she was transferring the Lyceum lease to Irving.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/1/18)
Ref.No: 322    
Author: Brown, Hannah >>
Address: Selsdon
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1878, Sept, 8(?) 
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: She sends thanks. She will soon be able to send more news but at present is not up to it. The Baroness does not think of leaving until the end of the next month. She refers to Birmingham, &c.
Published: -
Notes: Written by Hannah Brown and barely legible.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/7)
Ref.No: 687    
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