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Author: Mapleson, (James) Henry >>
Address: Her Majesty's Theatre
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: [London]
Date: [1879?], [Dec.?] 
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: He asks for a box for Wednesday.
Published: -
Notes: This might be for the W. Belford matinee on 10th December.
Document Holder: LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker)
Ref.No: 8183    
Author: Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts >>
Address: S-- St [Stratton Street]
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1879, Dec., 10 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: This will be a hard morning for Irving. She encloses £20 for her Box to be added to the fund for the poor gentleman aided at the theatre that day. (Postscript) The season is so severe she sends her little donation (£10) at once to Irving's Lyceum Company Fund.
Published: -
Notes: The benefit matinee performance of 'Two Roses' for W.R. Belford was on 10th December. In 1879 Irving set up the Lyceum Provident and Benevolent Fund.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/8)
Ref.No: 830    
Author: Boughton, Katharine >>
Address: West House, Campden Hill, W
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: [1879?], Dec., 11 
Document Type: Letter (3 p.)
Content Summary: An invitation to dinner on the first Sunday in February. They enjoyed the performance, with many thanks for box seats.
Published: -
Notes:
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/17)
Ref.No: 664    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: Royal Lyceum Theatre, Strand
Recipient: Lacy, Walter >>
Address: -
Date: 1879, Dec., 12 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: Invites Lacy to dine with him at the Garrick Club on Sunday next - the 14th - at seven. Only 3 or 4 old 'uns to meet the Duke of Wellington - who is most excellent company. Ever yours sincerely.
Published: -
Notes:
Document Holder: P
Ref.No: 5929    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: Royal Lyceum Theatre, Strand
Recipient: Tennyson, Hallam >>
Address: -
Date: 1879, Dec., 16 
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: Tennyson wants a reply concerning 'Becket'. Nothing would give Irving more pleasure than to produce it, but when he might he cannot say. The conditions of his lesseeship [of the Lyceum] render it imperative that he make money as the early time of his management was fraught with excessive expenditure. He would hardly expect to make a profit from 'Becket' but he would expect to enhance his reputation but when he can be justified in expending £2000 on a play solely for the reputation of all concerned he cannot say. Cannot believe at present that 'Becket' would have a long run or that it should be acted for more than £150 a night. The expense nightly will be at least £135 not including fee to the author and with an outlay of £2000 upon the production Tennyson may calculate the position of the manager at the end of a 100 night run. Need he repeat what a delight it would be to produce his father's play but he frankly believes that a less remarkable work than 'Becket' would have a greater chance of success. He will return the books as Hallam Tennyson desires.
Published:
Notes: In a Secretary's hand -signed by Irving. The play is referred to as 'à Becket'. See Letter 5514. By courtesy of the Tennyson Research Centre, Lincolnshire County Council.
Document Holder: TRC (Reference: 3794)
Ref.No: 5515    
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