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Author: Stoker, Bram (Abraham) >>
Address: Lyceum Theatre
Recipient: Clark, Robert >>
Address: -
Date: 1887, March, 23 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: Irving asks him to thank Clarke for his kindness to the poor man about whom he has written. Irving has referred it to the Committee of the Actors' Benevolent Fund who grant the money, and is sure Clarke's support will ensure success.
Published: -
Notes:
Document Holder: P
Ref.No: 6128    
Author: Black, William >>
Address: Paston House, Paston Place, Brighton
Recipient: Stoker, Bram (Abraham) >>
Address: (Secretary of the Westland Marston Testimonial Fund.) [London]
Date: [1887], March, 24 
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: He will be pleased to join the Committee for the Westland Marston Testimonial Fund. He presumes there will be a private subscription list as well as Irving's undertaking, to which he will contribute.
Published: -
Notes: Irving was to stage a benefit performance of 'Werner' at the Lyceum. Letters of acceptance were also received from Oscar Browning 26/3/1887, John Calthrop 19/3/1887, Arthur Cecil 28/3/1887 also enrolling his friend Sir John Aird, Henry Savile Clarke 19/3/1887, Wilkie Collins 21/3/1887, William Frith 19/3/1887, F.J. Furnivall 19/3/1887, Corney Grain, John Hollingshead 24/3/1887, Henry Arthur Jones, Frank Marshall 15/3/1887. E.F.S. Pigott 21/3/1887, Carl Rosa 23/3/87, W.M. Rossetti 19/3/87, J. Palgrave Simpson 19/3/87, A.C. Swinburne 24/3/87, Laurence Alma Tadema 19/4?/1887, T. Watts-Dunton 24/3/87, W.G. Wills 21/3/87, Thomas Woolner 24/3/87, Edmund Yates 20/3/87. Those refusing included Matthew Arnold 22/3/1887 through absence from London, Walter Besant 14/4/1887 who will send subscription, Walter Lacy 18/3/87 who could not attend, J.T. Knowles, & John Ruskin who sent subscription 25/3/87. William Sharp who had contributed felt his name should have been included.
Document Holder: LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker)
Ref.No: 7805    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: 15A, Grafton Street, Bond Street, W.
Recipient: Marshall, Frank (Francis Albert) >>
Address: -
Date: 1887, April, 8 
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: He states when he will be at the theatre. Referring to 'Werner', he had no objection to [Clement] Scott's mentioning Marshall's association in the work, but he did object to the mention that several new scenes had been written. That should have come later and from Irving. "Anything more calculated to ... sharpen the quills of the detractors could not be imagined." He comments on the prying habit so common in journalism ... What about dinner?
Published: I.K. Fletcher, Catalogue no.220, 1966, item 230.
Notes: Addressed "Dear Frank" and signed "affectionately ever yours" but partly illegible. Byron's 'Werner', revised by Marshall, was performed on 1st June 1887 at a benefit for John Westland Marston. A digital image of this letter is at http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/col/phl
Document Holder: HLC (Reference: Box 7, Folder 35)
Ref.No: 4705    
Author: Claretie, Jules Arsène Armand >>
Address: Comedie Francaise, Administrateur General
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1887, April, 17 Sunday
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: Refers to Irving in 'The Bells', 'Hamlet', 'Richelieu', and 'Louis XI' also to Mounet-Sully as Hamlet.
Published: -
Notes: In French - not entirely legible.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/20)
Ref.No: 405    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: Lyceum Theatre
Recipient: Not known >>
Address: -
Date: [1887?], [May?] 
Document Type: Letter (3 p.)
Content Summary: Love and greeting, old friend and to dear wife. Looks upon his dedication as an act of great friendship - happiest thing is to think one is not forgotten. His heart goes out to their dear (M-------?) Describes a busy season at the Lyceum. Johnnie is off to Aix and is as happy as a sandboy. Looking forward to Glasgow visit. One week in Glasgow, one in Edinburgh and one week in Glasgow again. Chopping and changing but it will be alright. Affectionately ...
Published: -
Notes: This letter seems likely to be to William Beatty Kingston, referring to his book 'Monarchs I have met'. J.L. Toole went to Aix-les-Bains to convalesce in 1886, but Irving did not tour that year. The biographies do not describe such a broken visit to Glasgow, but Irving went first to Scotland in 1887 shortly before his third tour to America.
Document Holder: BTC (Reference: EJE/000465/501)
Ref.No: 6086    
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