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Author: Albery, James >>
Address: Fairlawn, near Greenhithe
Recipient: Thorne, Thomas >>
Address: -
Date: 1881, July, 30 
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: Comments about Irving and the staging of Albery's play 'Two Roses'. He refers to an altercation with Thorne. The production of the play at the Lyceum would be worth £xxxx to him.
Published: -
Notes: Copied by Mary Albery and enclosed with Letter 93.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/10)
Ref.No: 9264    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: Royal Lyceum Theatre, Strand
Recipient: Loveday, Henry Joseph "Harry" >>
Address: -
Date: [1881?], [July?] Sat[urda]y evening
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: He won't return that night. Good luck. Don't forget Kerr the next night. When does Loveday begin?
Published: -
Notes: Undated but on the early Lyceum paper 1878-82. Kerr may be the actor Frederick Kerr. This may refer to events after the end of the season. A digital image of this letter is at http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/col/phl
Document Holder: HLC (Reference: Box 7, Folder 50)
Ref.No: 7823    
Author: Wills, William Gorman >>
Address: Garrick Club
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: [1881?] 
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: He finished the 3rd Act that night. It has plenty of humour for Mephisto[pheles] and a powerful ending. Did Irving like Act 2 which he outlines? He sends 2 sketches Godwin did for him of an old German town. He describes the sounds and movement and foliage - ivy shining in moonlight on Martha's cottage also the Hartz mountains in the last act with sheet lightning - witches old & young - Faust under spell - Meph amusing - apparition of Margaret with red circle round neck - dungeon scene very strong for M.
Published: -
Notes: Letters 4387-88 also refer to Godwin's sketches but they come from a later address and this letter seems part of the earlier sequence of composition.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/1/25)
Ref.No: 4374    
Author: Marshall, Frank (Francis Albert) >>
Address: Westwood, Bracknell, ( Near Ascot crossed out) Berks. Nearest Railway Station Ascot (written)
Recipient: Stoker, Bram (Abraham) >>
Address: [London?]
Date: [1881?], [Oct.?] 
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: He is glad to hear from Stoker. He expects to see Irving in Manchester the next month. Why doesn't Stoker come down there to stay whenever he likes. He will need to make a few alterations to the ms. where no changes have been made already. He refers obscurely to Darwin's(?) fairies in petticoats - political economists' children. He thinks the chief [Irving ] must have had a strong time in Dublin the previous week.
Published: -
Notes: Signed with initials, on mourning paper and difficult to read. This may refer to his play 'Robert Emmett'; or possibly might date from 1878.
Document Holder: BTC (Reference: 2006/0078 (Box 2))
Ref.No: 7532    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: Macgregor's Hotel, St Vincent Street, Glasgow
Recipient: Thompson, Alfred >>
Address: -
Date: 1881, Oct., 28 
Document Type: Letter (9 p.)
Content Summary: Expectation in Edinburgh is so great he wishes he had some new material. The paper would go round Great Britain too. D.C. Macleod wishes him to contribute to 'Good Words'. Has Thompson time to put together an essay on the "Stage as it is" - he knows as much as Irving - on the lines of the old essay (enclosed)? A chatty paper would be the thing. That the stage is not banned nor its members parasites, and it depends on the conduct of its members, and theatres and actors are increasing in number and the good in the majority must be encouraged. He is not there to defend but to state the truth that the stage is a great moral engine for good or evil... Irving has just realised the great expectation about what he will say. His engagement is historical in that nearly £1400 has been earned in 4 nights and this in Scotland. Reject the Dramatic Reform Association. The people get the plays they want. The playhouse is a good school. Can Thompson understand and do it for him? He will see him in Manchester when the boy will be with them? Loveday wrote to Ian to join them there? Beautiful tribute to poor Kempster(?) Billson(?) is a rum'un. He has a lot to tell him which will keep.
Published: -
Notes: Photocopy with transcript at THM/14/9/8(1). The old essay is not present, but with a copy of a printed text of Irving's address at the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution, 8th November 1881 from a newspaper.
Document Holder: P
Ref.No: 4323    
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