| Author: |
Tennyson, Alfred
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Baron Tennyson,
1809-1892 poet |
| Address: |
Farringford, Freshwater, Isle of Wight |
| Recipient: |
Bateman, Sidney Frances
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née Cowell, Mrs H.L., 1823-1881 manager |
| Address: |
[Lyceum Theatre] |
| Date: |
[1875], Dec., 14 |
| Document Type: |
Letter |
| Content Summary: |
If she repents of the proposal made in the Spring she should say so. As he has always said, if she tells him the changes required he will make them. It is past 5th December. |
| Published: |
A.Tennyson, Letters, Vol. III. |
| Notes: |
Typewritten transcript. Comments on negotiations over 'Queen Mary' probably in answer to Letter 8764. |
| Document Holder: |
THM (Reference: THM/37/1/15) |
| Ref.No: |
8765 |
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| Author: |
Pollock, Juliet
>>
née Creed, Lady,
d.1899 wife of Sir William Frederick, m.1844 |
| Address: |
59, Montagu Square, W |
| Recipient: |
Irving, Sir Henry
>>
(John Henry Brodribb), 1838-1905 |
| Address: |
- |
| Date: |
1875, Dec., 15 |
| Document Type: |
Letter (9 p.) |
| Content Summary: |
Whenever their meeting is she will be glad. She has sent Irving manuscript of her notes with ink hardly dry. Will send servant for them as they are going to the country on Friday week. Will Irving ask Anne or 'the Abominable' to hand the manuscript over? She looks forward to 'Hamlet' again but has doubts about revival of 'Leah' but will go. Is thinking of Irving's Othello - he has added deep interest to the evening of her life. She will call at Rutland Lodge today. Kate's notes lately have been kind; she is too good to be unjust for long. |
| Published: |
- |
| Notes: |
'Dear Henry Irving'. Anne and 'the Abominable'' are presumably staff at Grafton Street. Kate is probably Kate Crowe, née Bateman. Irving played Joseph in 'Leah' in 1864. |
| Document Holder: |
THM (Reference: THM/37/1/14) |
| Ref.No: |
2488 |
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| Author: |
Wills, William Gorman
>>
1828-1891 artist, playwright |
| Address: |
Garrick Club |
| Recipient: |
Irving, Sir Henry
>>
(John Henry Brodribb), 1838-1905 |
| Address: |
- |
| Date: |
[1875?] |
| Document Type: |
Letter (2 p.) |
| Content Summary: |
His 'Walter Raleigh' plot has been snubbed by Mrs Bateman. It has the power of 'The Iron Mask' with high class human nature - the finest dramatic subject and some day he will write it for Irving. He refers to dear old Charley coming back. |
| Published: |
- |
| Notes: |
No play by Wills about Walter Raleigh survives. 'The Iron Mask' may be the 1851 play by Ben Webster. Charley may refer to Charles James Mathews who went to India in 1875. |
| Document Holder: |
THM (Reference: THM/37/1/25) |
| Ref.No: |
4332 |
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| Author: |
Pollock, Juliet
>>
née Creed, Lady,
d.1899 wife of Sir William Frederick, m.1844 |
| Address: |
59, Montagu Square, W |
| Recipient: |
Irving, Sir Henry
>>
(John Henry Brodribb), 1838-1905 |
| Address: |
- |
| Date: |
1875, Dec., 23 |
| Document Type: |
Letter (4 p.) |
| Content Summary: |
Difficult to write calmly after such acting. Irving is a true artist who improves with each new venture. He is learning repose without stiffness and has complete domination over his voice now. This will serve him well in 'Othello' and restore poetry to the stage.She admired the fine action in the murder scene and several lines moved her to tears. Last night he was all that she liked to see and he knows what that means to her. P.S. Keep this to himself. She hopes he will either destroy it or lock it up. |
| Published: |
- |
| Notes: |
She is discussing 'Macbeth' which opened on 25th September. |
| Document Holder: |
THM (Reference: THM/37/1/14) |
| Ref.No: |
2489 |
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| Author: |
Irving, Sir Henry
>>
(John Henry Brodribb),
1838-1905 |
| Address: |
15A Grafton Street, Bond Street, W. |
| Recipient: |
Jackson, Harry
>>
1835/36-1885? actor, stage manager |
| Address: |
- |
| Date: |
1875, Dec., 24 Fri |
| Document Type: |
Letter (3 p.) |
| Content Summary: |
All good wishes. If he wishes to do anything to the medallion he may handle it again but Irving wants it now so please give it to 'Doody' . Irving wants the Batemans to see it too so 'Doody' will take it to the theatre. He is just off to Guildhall with George Lewis to lodge a criminal prosecution against the Editor of 'Fun'. See the last number published the last Wednesday. |
| Published: |
- |
| Notes: |
'Doody' was Irving's dresser. On 24.12.1875 George Lewis, Irving's solicitor, lodged a libel suit at the Guildhall Police Court, initially against the printer of the personal attack "To a Fashionable Tragedian". Later an apology was given in open court by the Editor of 'Fun', Henry Sampson, and the writer George R. Sims, so Irving stopped the case going to trial. See Brereton, Vol.1, p.194-6. "The Batemans" refers to Mrs Bateman and her daughters. |
| Document Holder: |
P |
| Ref.No: |
8559 |
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