| Author: |
Irving, Sir Henry
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(John Henry Brodribb),
1838-1905 |
| Address: |
Lyceum Theatre |
| Recipient: |
Coutts & Co.
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Irving's bankers |
| Address: |
- |
| Date: |
1884, Sept., 13 |
| Document Type: |
Misc.Document |
| Content Summary: |
General order for payment £5 quarterly to J.C. Parkinson. |
| Published: |
- |
| Notes: |
Coutts Archive contains other general orders in 1885, 1891 (relating to the Gallery Club), 1892 (Savage Club subscription), 1893 (Bram Stoker with reference to Irving), 1897, 1898, and n.d. (Birmingham Arts Club Ltd). |
| Document Holder: |
COU |
| Ref.No: |
981 |
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| Author: |
Irving, Sir Henry
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(John Henry Brodribb),
1838-1905 |
| Address: |
Russell House, Detroit |
| Recipient: |
Fields, Annie
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née Adams, Mrs James T., 1834-1915 |
| Address: |
- |
| Date: |
1884, Oct., 19 |
| Document Type: |
Letter (2 p.) |
| Content Summary: |
He is unable to carry out her suggestion for a Benefit for the associated charities in Boston. He has already had to refuse so many similar appeals in various cities that he would cause great offence by breaking a rule he has been forced to make. He would have been only too glad to aid her cause, not only for her sake but also for the sake of the friend of them both - Miss Hogarth. |
| Published: |
- |
| Notes: |
Addressed "My dear Madam" but Mrs Fields is identified by the reference to Georgina Hogarth, the sister-in-law of Charles Dickens, also found in Letter 4761. |
| Document Holder: |
HUL |
| Ref.No: |
4760 |
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| Author: |
Sullivan, Sir Arthur Seymour
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1842-1900 composer |
| Address: |
1, Queen's Mansions, Victoria Street, S.W. |
| Recipient: |
Irving, Sir Henry
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(John Henry Brodribb), 1838-1905 |
| Address: |
- |
| Date: |
1885, March, 6 |
| Document Type: |
Letter (7 p.) |
| Content Summary: |
He apologises for delaying his answer about 'Olivia' but he was too busy finishing his opera, which took all his time. He read 'Olivia' carefully and decided he could do the music in the piece but the overture and entractes involve much thought and labour, thrown away as the audience will not listen to them. He was at the first performance of 'As You Like It' at the St James with charming music by Alfred Cellier, where overture and entracte was utterly lost. Therefore he will write music for the stage action - the carol and any melodramatic music - (the trio is already done). If Irving keeps his decision to have all written by the same man Sullivan will help him find the right one. The terms will be "so much a night" to be determined by Irving. |
| Published: |
- |
| Notes: |
The opera is 'The Mikado' produced on 14th March . |
| Document Holder: |
THM (Reference: THM/37/1/25) |
| Ref.No: |
2993 |
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| Author: |
Irving, Sir Henry
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(John Henry Brodribb),
1838-1905 |
| Address: |
[New York] |
| Recipient: |
Not known
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| Address: |
[New York] |
| Date: |
[1885], [March], [15?] |
| Document Type: |
Letter |
| Content Summary: |
An acceptance of the invitation to a public banquet in his honour, but a refusal to commit himself to returning to America. |
| Published: |
Brereton, vol.II, p.69. |
| Notes: |
Addressed "Gentlemen". Over 100 signed the invitation. |
| Document Holder: |
Pd |
| Ref.No: |
6319 |
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| Author: |
Bennett, Marie
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fan from “Seven Dials” 1885 |
| Address: |
66 St Martin's Lane |
| Recipient: |
Irving, Sir Henry
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(John Henry Brodribb), 1838-1905 |
| Address: |
- |
| Date: |
1885, May, 1 |
| Document Type: |
Letter (4 p.) |
| Content Summary: |
She must write to tell him that a small band of malcontents will be present, and should Irving refer to the pit arrangements will give an emphatic negative and soil the first night. She comments unfavorably on the fact that they pitted their actors against Irving during his absence, but their efforts have been unsuccessful. His return would be painful as his first act had been so generous and thoughtful. She is presumptious but "hearts beat as true in Seven Dials as in Belgravia". |
| Published: |
L. Irving, p.455 (in part). |
| Notes: |
On his return from his 2nd American tour Irving attempted to make the pit seats, previously queued for, bookable in advance, but this caused such a storm at the first night of 'Hamlet' on May 2nd that he abandoned the innovation. In Irving's absence the Lyceum had been occupied from 01/11/1884-25/04/1885 by a company led by the American actress Mary Anderson. Marie Bennett's quotation is a play on W.S. Gilbert's "Hearts just as pure and fair may beat in Belgrave Square as in the lowly air of Seven Dials". |
| Document Holder: |
THM (Reference: THM/37/1/25) |
| Ref.No: |
272 |
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