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Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: 34, Bruton Street
Recipient: James, Eleanor Mary >>
Address: -
Date: 1872, Sept., 26 
Document Type: Letter
Content Summary: He had intended each day to visit her but had been prevented by press of rehearsals. He had not had a moment since his return to town. He will call before Saturday if he can, but they must work night and day to complete 'Charles'. The play is beautiful and must be successful (he hopes she is Conservative) but it is impossible to tell in these days of odd dramatic taste. He must defer the pleasure of dining with her. (Postscript:) He will always have a box for her if she wishes to see 'Charles' often.
Published: L. Irving, p. 217.
Notes: Typewritten transcript with errors in THM/37/1/11. 'Charles I' opened on 28th September.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/45)
Ref.No: 1509    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: 34 Bruton Street
Recipient: James, Eleanor Mary >>
Address: 10 Pelham Place, South Kensington
Date: 1872, Sept., 28 
Document Type: Letter (3 p.)
Content Summary: The demands for seats by press and literati have been so great that he must exchange her box for stalls most reluctantly. He hopes she will understand. He will try to call the next morning but must decline her kind offer. He would not like to trust so valuable a gem to the dangers of loss which a theatre is "heir to".
Published: -
Notes: With envelope; transcript in THM/37/1/11. On the proposed loan of a Charles I jewel?
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/45)
Ref.No: 1510    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: Bruton Street
Recipient: Rorke, Kate >>
Address: -
Date: [1872], [Sept.?], [29?] 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: Thanks for the invitation to meet her husband. He had a great success the previous evening among the "wise men". If she were bold enough he could guarantee her plenty of work.
Published: Ifan Kyrle Fletcher catalogue 146.
Notes: Irving stayed at 34 Bruton Street from August to late December 1872. This probably refers to the first night of 'Charles I' on 28th September. He invites Kate Rorke to join the Lyceum Company.
Document Holder: P
Ref.No: 9050    
Author: Byron, Henry James >>
Address: Westminster Club
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1872, Sept., 30 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: Though weary of writing, he expresses real delight in Irving's success at the Lyceum. He would have written to Bateman, but he would have thought it Bunkum. He thought Bateman's daughter [Isabel] would have done well from the first, though he may have spoken abruptly and not in good taste, he is glad to see her praised in 'The Times'. Remembering Irving's career from the first he is charmed and only regrets that the play is not his and that he cannot see it. "Possibly as they say at the Vic 'a Day will come'."
Published: -
Notes: The play was 'King Charles I'.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/1/12)
Ref.No: 719    
Author: Pinches, Edward Ewin >>
Address: 19, Ladbroke Square, W
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1872, Oct., 4 
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: Congratulates Irving on his greatest triumph. He was delighted listening to the words of Charles R - it is the King himself who speaks. He would have written before but has been blind in one eye since his visit to Lyceum. Doctor attributes it to cold but Pinches thinks it is the unusual excitement of the optic nerve the other evening. His wife who has heard his account of the performance sends regards and congratulations.
Published:
Notes: 'King Charles I' opened on 24/09/1872
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/33)
Ref.No: 2317    
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