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Author: Calmour, Alfred Cecil >>
Address: 37 Sydney Street, Fulham Road, S.W.
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: [London]
Date: [1881], [March], [14?] 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: Irving had sent him a seat for 'The Corsican Brothers' and he asks to see 'The Cup' as there are many reliable good accounts specially of Irving acting with Miss Terry. His friend Miss Webling had had drawings of them published. [W.G.] Wills thought the play fine and dramatic. Calmour is writing a blank verse play on Cromwell for Charles Dillon, treating the character differently from Mr Wills and making him hero as Colonel Richards did. He would like Irving to read the finished play. Any seat would do.
Published: -
Notes: Stoker's note: 1 stall 15/3/81. Calmour acted as secretary to Wills to whose 'Charles I' he refers. The Cromwell play may be 'Law, not Justice', 1882.
Document Holder: LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker)
Ref.No: 7579    
Author: Long, Edwin Longsden >>
Address: Kelston, Fitzjohn's Avenue, N.W.
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1881, March, 18 
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: He has been told he should give some sort of evening to show off "this blessed picture" by gaslight. Could Irving make it Sunday week 27th, 9 till any time? Please post enclosed yes or no.
Published: -
Notes: Is this the portrait of Irving as Vanderdecken? Various friends refer to Irving's failure to answer letters.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/28)
Ref.No: 2148    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: 15A, Grafton Street, Bond Street, W.
Recipient: Stoker, Bram (Abraham) >>
Address: -
Date: 1881, April, 11 
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: If Whittingham has the enclosed first thing in the morning he can finish off and bind up a dozen copies with blank covers the colour of 'Merchant'.
Published: -
Notes: Whittingham ran the Chiswick Press which printed some of Irving's acting editions. This may refer to early texts of 'Romeo and Juliet' (see Letter 6233) or 'Much Ado About Nothing', produced in 1882; but 'Romeo and Juliet' was printed for production in December (see Letter 6951).
Document Holder: SCL (Reference: RL2/6/169)
Ref.No: 6231    
Author: Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts >>
Address: S-- St [Stratton Street]
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1881, April, 12 
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: As B.C.B tells her Irving cannot [call] when he returns from the drive which she hopes he enjoyed, she sends this to greet his return and thank him for the beautiful 'Corsican Brothers' in the prettiest binding. She was sorry not to see it again but the night was chilly. She hopes for Easter Monday. On Irving's opening night they go to St Stephens for a little parish ceremony. She thanks him for the print and is glad to have her Hamlet safe home: the figure and Irving's spirit is caught, the face being unfinished... She cannot ask him to come when he is so busy, but she knows he will remember the Children's Hour when possible.
Published: -
Notes: B.C.B. must be the Baroness's husband who took her name. She refers to Edwin Long's portrait of Irving as Hamlet. It had possibly gone for a print to be made. 'The Belle's Stratagem' opened at the Lyceum on 16th April and 'Othello' in May.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/8)
Ref.No: 882    
Author: Thompson, Alfred >>
Address: Bfstk [Beefsteak] Club
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: [1881?] Monday
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: He has not enjoyed artistically anything as much as that evening. He is not going in to the (?) afterpiece but the scenery, stage management, grouping and acting are better than anything yet done. This gives him hopes he may help in producing his greatest desire -'Romeo and Juliet', and knowing Irving's desire for perfection he feels a magnificent treat is in store. Many managers have tried... but Irving has shown he can bring it off.
Published: -
Notes: Thompson may be referring to the highly praised staging of 'The Cup' which from April 1881 was followed by 'The Belle's Stratagem'. Brereton and L. Irving both describe Thompson as designing costumes for 'Romeo and Juliet' which opened on 8th March 1882, but Stoker says none of his designs were used.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/1/22)
Ref.No: 3450    
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