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Author: Modjeska, Helena >>
Address: -
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1881, Jan., 4 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: She sends congratulations on Irving's enormous success and looks forward to seeing him in his new powerful character. Will he give them a matinée? She is happy to hear everyone praising him.
Published: -
Notes: She is referring to 'The Cup' which opened on 3rd January, and which in her Memoirs she relates she saw with Tennyson.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/32)
Ref.No: 4611    
Author: Sala, George Augustus >>
Address: 46, Mecklenburgh Square, WC
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: [London]
Date: 1880 [1881], Jan., 4 Tuesday
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: A magnificent performance in 'The Cup'. Hypercriticism may attack the double poisoning but he rejects it. Synorix is comparable to Aegisthus, Camma to Clytemnestra and Tennyson to Aeschylus. Sala will see him at the end of the week - Irving knows where.
Published: -
Notes: Comparison is with the 'Agamemnon' of Aeschylus. Irving played Synorix and Ellen Terry Camma. 'The Cup' opened on 3rd January 1881, and Sala has forgotten the changed year.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/37)
Ref.No: 3852    
Author: Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts >>
Address: Stratton St
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1881, Jan., 5 
Document Type: Letter (3 p.)
Content Summary: The next day ends this disgraceful(?) Christmas. Will Irving come late in the evening? She has the same guests since the Tract Spirits left, and the boys of St Stephens sing carols. She longs to see him to talk over 'The Cup'.
Published: -
Notes: 'The Cup' opened at the Lyceum on 3rd January.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/8)
Ref.No: 877    
Author: Hill, Jane Dalzell >>
Address: 3 Morpeth Terrace, Westminster, SW
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: [1881], Jan., 6 
Document Type: Letter (11 p.)
Content Summary: Detailed high praise of 'The Cup'. Tennyson should be proud to be so interpreted, but it should be played before 'The Corsican Brothers'. Irving is incomparable and the trying preparation must be repaid by the enormous success. Irving has raised and revolutionised the modern stage. They were well repaid for rushing back.
Published: -
Notes: 'The Cup' opened on 3rd January 1881.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/26)
Ref.No: 1389    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: 15A Grafton Street, Bond Street, W.
Recipient: Logie, Cosmo Gordon >>
Address: -
Date: 1881, Jan., 8 
Document Type: Letter (3 p.)
Content Summary: His transactions with Mrs Charles Kean were of a most simple and straightforward character. She gave Irving sole rights of acting 'The Corsican Brothers' for a run for £20 a month and Irving paid Mrs Kean an advance two months' fees whenever it might be acted. Irving has instructed Stoker to pay Logie on 18th £40 in advance for two months' fees and so on until the play is withdrawn.
Published: -
Notes: A handwritten copy only, with another later copy repeating much of the information apparently dated 27th April 1891. See Irving's correspondence with Mrs Kean.
Document Holder: BTC (Reference: 2006/0078 (Box 2))
Ref.No: 2709    
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