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Author: Greville, Sabine Matilda >>
Address: -
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: [1875?], [Oct.?] 
Document Type: Letter (2+4 p.)
Content Summary: She is angry that the Wales went to a farce instead of 'Macbeth'. Irving was unkind about her Hamlet letters - promise her he will burn this one. She is disposed to like Mrs Crowe and would not want her to know she had criticised her. (Postscript) She will have more to write about Tuesday, but suggests more light and sarcastic expression for two phrases. She has only written to two potentates since 'Macbeth': Delane, and Thomas Taylor, who has not written. She discusses Mrs Crowe, Sarah Siddons and Mrs Pritchard, and thinks women's acting is a question of nervous temperament. She remarks about recent Shakespeare discoveries.
Published: -
Notes: The final four pages are unaddressed and unsigned so almost certainly continue the postscript of the first two.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/1/15)
Ref.No: 1234    
Author: Yates, Edmund Hodgson >>
Address: Lion Mansion, Brighton
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1875, Oct., 6 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: Yates wants Irving to understand that he will feel less pain over the criticism in 'The World' [of Irving's Macbeth] than Yates had in writing it. He hopes to be as just as he can and not give praise against his judgment. So Irving may see that there are two sides to every question he encloses note from his old friend, W.H.Wills, for 25 years Dickens' partner and co-editor, who would not say what he did not mean. Send it back once read. United kind regards.
Published: L. Irving, p.263 in full.
Notes:
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/1/15)
Ref.No: 4449    
Author: Greville, Sabine Matilda >>
Address: The Cottage, Milford, Godalming
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: [1875], [Oct.?], 7 Thursday
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: She teases Irving that he has attracted her friend Leonora and mentions the latter's husband Alfred. As a friend she makes further suggestions about 'Macbeth'; she hopes to help with 'Othello' but leaves 'Philip' to Irving. She criticises Mrs Crowe again, praising her enunciation, but saying she has only the capacity for domestic drama, not an epic poem.
Published: -
Notes: 'Othello' was to be performed in 1876; Philip is Irving's role as Philip of Spain in 'Queen Mary'. Mrs Crowe is criticised as Lady Macbeth.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/1/15)
Ref.No: 1235    
Author: Greville, Sabine Matilda >>
Address: -
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: [1875], [Oct.?] 
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: She quotes Corinthians "The letter killeth..." Irving has given new life to Macbeth, so leave the letter to the critics who have never read Shakespeare for their own benefit. Irving understands man, and his soliloqies made her tremble all Sunday and the doctor had to give her quinine. Had he noticed the word 'conscience' never appears in the play. Thoughts of 'Macbeth' interfere with her [Queen] Mary and with her début at Loton. Sir B[aldwyn] is pleased with her.
Published: -
Notes: She was to appear in Sir Baldwyn Leighton's play 'Day Dreams'.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/1/15)
Ref.No: 1236    
Author: Greville, Sabine Matilda >>
Address: The Cottage, Milford, Godalming
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: [1875?], [Oct.?], [10?] Sunday morning
Document Type: Letter (3 p.)
Content Summary: She has had a characteristic poem from "the best o' the cut throats" and has begged him to come to their box on Monday, seconded by the Duchess [of Sutherland]. Ask Baroness Coutts to show him her portrait of her great friend Lady Becher, painted about a year before she died. Telegram if he is coming on Sunday. Lionel Tennyson is going to the Lyceum on Thursday.
Published: -
Notes: Lady Becher was the actress Eliza O'Neill.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/1/15)
Ref.No: 1237    
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