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Author: Pollock, Juliet >>
Address: 59, Montagu Square, W
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: [1874?] Tuesday
Document Type: Letter (8 p.)
Content Summary: Will be at the theatre tonight. She will go round to Mr Bateman and asks Irving to come down and see her. She has been performing with her son, Walter, and Harry Dickens. Like strollers in the provinces they played in a courtyard of the dirtiest description with only one dressing room. She was nervous about 'The Bridge of Sighs' but the rough audience cried and so did Walter. If it was not bad it was due to her 'dear Hamlet' who has set strong emotion vibrating within her. Much additional and lavish praise. Irving loves his art and she feels there are harmonies between them.
Published: -
Notes:
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/1/14)
Ref.No: 2495    
Author: Murray, Gaston >>
Address: Royal General Theatrical Fund, 49 Wellington Street, Strand, W.C.
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1874, Nov., 14 
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: He has great pleasure in informing Irving that at a Special General Meeting of the Directors on 12th November he was unanimously elected a Trustee of the [Royal General Theatrical] Fund in place of the late William Charles Macready.
Published: -
Notes: Murray writes as Secretary of the Fund.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/32)
Ref.No: 2376    
Author: Pollock, Juliet >>
Address: [London]
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: [London]
Date: [1874?], [Nov.?] 
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: She forgot to give him this the other day. It is amusing. She is taking Kate [Crowe] an exact portrait of Salvini in 'Othello' from 'Vanity Fair'.
Published: -
Notes: A note written on a ms. copy of a long letter from R. Sharp to [John] Henderson on [John Philip] Kemble's Hamlet. Lady Pollock did not admire Salvini and the portrait is a caricature.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/1/15)
Ref.No: 8763    
Author: Davison, James William >>
Address: [London?]
Recipient: Kenney, Charles Lamb >>
Address: [London?]
Date: [1874] Wednesday
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: He went by chance the other night to see 'Hamlet' at the Lyceum. For the first time in a long life he saw a human being called Hamlet, and believes in no other as Shakespeare's men and women are truly human. He read 'Belgravia' that day for which he thanks Kenney, sending regards to his wife. J.W.D.
Published: -
Notes: With note by Stoker identifying the writer as James W. Davidson (sic) to Charles Lamb Kenney during the first run of the Lyceum 'Hamlet'. Given to Irving by Mrs Kenney, and by Irving to Stoker 1st April 1892.
Document Holder: SCL (Reference: RL2/6/373)
Ref.No: 6642    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: Garrick Club
Recipient: Not known >>
Address: -
Date: [1874], Nov., 26 
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: If his male correspondent will forward his copy of 'Richelieu' he will be pleased to mark the passages he retained.
Published: -
Notes: Irving first performed Bulwer Lytton's 'Richelieu' at the Lyceum on 27th September 1873. This letter in his hand has on the back a note by H.H. (possibly Henry Howe?) reading "Henry Irving the tragedian 26th November 1874".
Document Holder: SCL (Reference: DR 1136/4/42)
Ref.No: 7233    
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