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Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: 15A, Grafton Street, Bond Street, W.
Recipient: Not known >>
Address: -
Date: 1880, March, 7 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: He sends an example of Swinburne's folly, making nonsense of Shakespeare. He is reluctantly going to see [Edwin] Long who wants to paint "To be or not to be". (Postscript:) Please don't return the book.
Published: -
Notes: The letter is unaddressed but might be to Frank Marshall. Algernon Swinburne's 'A Study of Shakespeare' was published in 1880 [1879]. Edwin Long's portrait of Irving as Hamlet was painted for Baroness Burdett-Coutts.
Document Holder: P
Ref.No: 8628    
Author: Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts >>
Address: S-- St [Stratton Street]
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1880, March, 9 
Document Type: Letter (3 p.)
Content Summary: Irving may not have seen the enclosure. The afterpiece must be quite a good little farce. She sees such a Hamlet house for the first time... (Postscript) What pleasure and pride this would have given Mrs Brown.
Published: -
Notes: The afterpiece is probably Pinero's 'Daisy's Escape'.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/8)
Ref.No: 849    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: 15A Grafton Street, Bond Street, W.
Recipient: Scott, Clement William >>
Address: -
Date: 1880, March, 10 
Document Type: Letter (3 p.)
Content Summary: Excuse his delay in replying to Scott's letter. If Mr Ruskin chooses to publish his letter to Irving the responsibility will be off his hands. Under any circumstances he would object to "stand and deliver" and that letter only concerning and being complimentary to him he would not be a party to its publication - but in its sustained criticism of other artists in the play - nothing would induce him to make them public. He has a strong impression that a private letter demands reticence from the writer as well as the receiver, and does not think he is wrong.
Published: -
Notes: Ruskin's criticism of 'The Merchant of Venice'.
Document Holder: HUL
Ref.No: 4792    
Author: Jennings, Henry James >>
Address: Seaside and Pier Hotel, Hastings
Recipient: Irving, Florence >>
Address: [London]
Date: 1880, March, 11 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: He apologises for being delayed in Hastings. He hopes to find Dr Palfrey's report the next morning in Lincoln Inn's Fields. Mr Bram Stoker, Irving's "business agent" has apartments in the house of an acquaintance and lives in good style on his salary of £800 per annum. He suspects Mr Dubois was inaccurate in assessing Irving's income at £2000 per annum. He hopes to see her the next afternoon.
Published: -
Notes: Palfrey was Florence Irving's doctor, and Dubois Irving's solicitor. The correspondence over the deed of separation with Lewis & Lewis, then Irving's solicitors, shows different amounts of income.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/39/3/29)
Ref.No: 8549    
Author: Byron, Henry James >>
Address: 1 Eccleston Square, S.W.
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1880, March, 12 Saturday
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: He thanks Irving for his kind considerate telegram. He was dining out or would have replied at once. (Postscript) Clapham is healthy and delightful and there are many smaller houses on Mr Lackham's books.
Published: -
Notes:
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/19)
Ref.No: 731    
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