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Author: Tadema, Sir Lawrence Alma >>
Address: Townshend House, North Gate, Regents Park, NW.
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1880, Aug., 22 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: Delighted to hear Saturday went well. Tried to secure places but failed. What is happening about 'Coriolanus'? Drawings will be finished by beginning of September. Has worked himself 'blunt and blind' on them and has a small picture to finish. Architect is making drawings of scenes and is making perspective outlines of columns and buildings from Tadema's sketches. He is busy for 4 to 6 months at £5 a week so Irving is not neglected altogether.
Published: -
Notes: 'Coriolanus' was not produced at the Lyceum until 1901 when Alma Tadema was the designer.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/40)
Ref.No: 121    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: Ramsgate
Recipient: Loveday, Henry Joseph "Harry" >>
Address: [London]
Date: [1880], [Aug.], [27] Friday
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: He made an appointment with Allen for one o'clock - ask him to come at 4 instead. He hopes everything is going well.
Published: -
Notes: With an envelope postmarked Ramsgate AU 27 80. Jimmy (James H.) Allen was the prompter who heard lines, and probably took some rehearsals. 'The Corsican Brothers' opened on 18th September.
Document Holder: ECL (Reference: MS 431)
Ref.No: 7442    
Author: Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts >>
Address: Holly Lodge
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1880, Aug., 28 
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: She is there - can Irving come the next day & stay Monday? On Tuesday she is in S[tratton] St for a day.
Published: -
Notes:
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/8)
Ref.No: 862    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: 15A, Grafton Street, Bond Street, W.
Recipient: Loveday, Henry Joseph "Harry" >>
Address: [London]
Date: 1880, Aug., 29 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: They'd better call the first rehearsal at 12 on Monday. He will be back on Friday night. He is going down to old Levy's. Chambers [is to?] send Darer his salary. Irving forgot to mention it to him that day.
Published: -
Notes: Probably visiting Joseph Moses Levy, proprietor of the 'Daily Telegraph'. Darer was the Lyceum master carpenter. 'The Corsican Brothers' was to open on 18th September.
Document Holder: ECL (Reference: MS 431)
Ref.No: 7443    
Author: Simpson, John Palgrave >>
Address: 9 Alfred Place West, Thurloe Square, SW (Garrick Club embossed paper)
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1880, Sept., 2 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: He asks for a ticket for the first night of 'The Merchant of Venice' and also greatly wishes to be at first night of 'The Corsican Brothers'. (Postscript:) He is just back from 5 weeks' holiday in Switzerland.
Published: -
Notes:
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/38)
Ref.No: 3744    
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