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Author: Arnold, Augustus Walter >>
Address: 9, Sussex Place, Hyde Park (Reform Club crossed through)
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: [1879?], Nov., 24 
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: Can Irving dine on Sunday 30th? No party but the Duke of Wellington.
Published:
Notes: Arnold was lessor of the Lyceum.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/11)
Ref.No: 4426    
Author: Ruskin, John >>
Address: Arthur Severn's, Herne Hill, SE.
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1879, Nov., 30 
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: Detailed views on 'The Merchant of Venice' about Irving's interpretation and direction. Irving has not yet as much love for Shakespeare as for his art. Strong criticism of Ellen Terry's Portia. She should be grander and in the Bassanio scene she should keep her eyes down and stand at least half a dozen yards away from him. Ruskin also, as a painter, protests against the removal of Arragon [sic]. It is like pulling a leaf from a trefoil.
Published: L.Irving, p.346.
Notes: Transcript with the original.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/35)
Ref.No: 4032    
Author: Vezin, Hermann >>
Address: 10, Lancaster Place, Strand, W.C.
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: [London]
Date: 1879, Dec., 1 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: He wants to arrange a favourable London debut for Mrs Bernard Beere and is taking the Haymarket on February 5th & 12th to play [The Love Chase?] and 'The School for Scandal'. He asks Irving to release Old Chips [William Henry Chippendale] for the matinees to play Sir William Fondlove and Sir Peter Teazle as they have played together in the provinces, and to let him approach Forrester to play Joseph Surface. Congratulations on Irving's successful start.
Published: -
Notes: Irving refused, saying it was not company policy and he needed the actors' attention. This rule was relaxed later.
Document Holder: LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker)
Ref.No: 5403    
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    
Author: Blackie, John Stuart >>
Address: 24 Hill Street, Edinburgh
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: [1879?], Dec., 26 
Document Type: Letter (3 p.)
Content Summary: Christmas greetings. He sends a verse account of his travels on the Nile (not present). Egypt is strange and sometimes grand but he prefers the Scottish Highlands.
Published: -
Notes:
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/17)
Ref.No: 457    
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