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Author: Leighton, Frederic >>
Address: 2 Holland Park Road, Kensington, W.
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1886, July, 28 
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: He wants to refer to the smaller book of woodcuts he lent Irving when he was mounting 'Faust'. Would he send it back. He was sorry he could not go to the Lyceum on Saturday. He would like to see 'The Bells' again. (Postscript:) He has not had a reply to his last note and assumes Irving has made other arrangements about Miss Terry's portrait? He only asks as other recent letters of his have miscarried.
Published: -
Notes: The Saturday performance on 24th July was in aid of the Actors' Benevolent Fund.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/28)
Ref.No: 2665    
Author: Hingland, Lunnon >>
Address: -
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: [1886?] 
Document Type: Misc.Document (2 p.)
Content Summary: A caricature drawing of Irving's eyebrows and spectacles over "Hah! Hah! It may be bad milk - But the water is not bad, Good water cannot hurt bad milk." At foot drawing of a pump and milk churn.
Published: -
Notes: Addressed on the back to Ennery Hirving. The reference is obscure.
Document Holder: SCL (Reference: RL2/6/464)
Ref.No: 7030    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: Lyceum Theatre
Recipient: Burnand, Sir Francis Cowley >>
Address: -
Date: 1886, Oct., 18 
Document Type: Letter (3 p.)
Content Summary: How long? It hasn't begun. They still come and he will continue as long as they do, which may be madness. He does'nt know when 'Faust' will end or what will follow it. Probably Shakespeare as little else would hold its own. It must be something 'big'. He refers to the self complacency of a Dean who must be content and serene, and quotes a follower of Jno [Jean] Calvin who says the only thing in life he would change is soft for hard boiled egs at breakfast. (Postscript:) The 'Lay of the Lost Critic' was beautiful.
Published: -
Notes: Irving refers to the great success of 'Faust'. The Dean is unidentified. The poem, presumably by Burnand, refers to Scott's 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel'.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/14/9/8(2))
Ref.No: 1036    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Recipient: Morley, Charles >>
Address: -
Date: [1886], [Oct.?] 
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: [On long runs.] He cannot really give an answer as he has never done more than 300 nights and got on pretty well. He does not know what 1000 nights would do. Actors work in different ways: some save themselves, others are tired out before they attack their work, some derive intellectual pleasure. He thinks long runs would be injurious to the voice and refers to Diderot's theories. A long season fatigues the strongest and in provincial theatres in Europe they seldom perform more than 3 or 4 times a week, but they are subsidised with double companies. When there is a state theatre he thinks there will be alternating performances but at present little prospect of change. A successful play brooks no rival. This is his experience.
Published: -
Notes: A long corrected draft reply to Charles Morley's query about the psychological effect of long runs (Letter 3233) possibly not in Irving's hand. A cutting of a printed version of an article based on the letter perhaps from 'The Pall Mall Gazette' is located in Irving's personal File at THM. With the permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.
Document Holder: BM (Reference: 209*.b.17 (Vol.5))
Ref.No: 3234    
Author: Fenn, George Manville >>
Address: Bedford Walk(?), W
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1886, Oct., 22 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: Thanks to Irving for considering his piece. Sorry that 'the old bean' would not do - it would have suited Irving exactly. The next best thing will be for GMF to get it out and Irving can come to see it. Hopes to meet Irving at the Reform [Club] some time.
Published: -
Notes: Fenn wrote several plays; this may be 'The Barrister' performed in Leeds in March 1887, and at the Comedy Theatre in London in September.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/23)
Ref.No: 1351    
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