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Author: Bainbridge, Richard Bousfield >>
Address: Theatre Royal, Manchester
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1888, Oct., 1 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: Many of Irving's friends and admirers wish to entertain him one night at the Queen's Hotel. Would Irving fix a convenient night preferably at the end of second week of his visit. It will be private and informal which Bainbridge knows Irving prefers. Fix the night so he can tell the committee already formed.
Published: -
Notes: With confused notes by Irving 2/10/88 and Stoker (11th Monday?) noting dates of Irving's Bolton engagement on 17th and Manchester Arts Club on 20th altered to 24th, with the Queen's Hotel dinner set for 20th. It was finally held on 27th.
Document Holder: SCL (Reference: RL2/55/2)
Ref.No: 6939    
Author: Mackenzie, Sir Morell >>
Address: 19 Harley St, Cavendish Square, W.
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1888, Oct., 17 
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: He sends his book and hopes Irving and Ellen Terry to whom he sends love, will read it. Irving (who is on tour) will be sorry to hear that Joseph Hatton has attacked Mackenzie in the 'Sunday Times' article and leader and put in the stop press that he is suffering from "severe mental excitement". Morell refutes this. He hopes Irving is coining money on tour.
Published: -
Notes: Mackenzie's book 'The Fatal Illness of Frederick the Noble'.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/29)
Ref.No: 2351    
Author: Burnand, Sir Francis Cowley >>
Address: Albion Club, Ramsgate
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: [1888], Oct., 22 
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: He welcomes 'Macbeth' but not at the expense of his 'The Isle of St Tropez' which has roles for Alexander and Willard. He suggests Henry Neville might be Irving's Macduff, which is really Bancroft's idea, but Irving might not agree. (Postscript:) No more whisky. Does Irving consider the Gaiety Company a respectable one? He has heard complaints about Charles Harris's language which Sims and Pettitt put up with, but the girls are obliged to put up with it and Burnand thinks this gradually corrupts respectably brought up girls.
Published: -
Notes: 'Macbeth' opened at the Lyceum on 29th December 1888 with George Alexander as Macduff. The reference to Henry Neville may be a joke, and the reference to whisky is obscure. Charles Harris the stage manager caused controversy about his behaviour to the chorus in the Gaiety Company, managed by George Sims and Henry Pettitt. Irving's reply is Letter 1042.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/19)
Ref.No: 8705    
Author: Bancroft, Sir Squire >>
Address: 18 Berkeley Square
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1888, Oct., 25 
Document Type: Letter (3 p.)
Content Summary: He and his wife are in sympathy with Irving's splendid defence of the acting profession. He looks forward to Irving's return.
Published: -
Notes: This may refer to Irving's response to a press scandal about the treatment of chorus girls, while on tour in Manchester.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/13)
Ref.No: 893    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: Queen's Hotel, Manchester (Tour 1888 paper)
Recipient: Burnand, Sir Francis Cowley >>
Address: -
Date: 1888, Oct., 27 
Document Type: Letter (8 p.)
Content Summary: He discusses a scandal caused by the stage manager Charles Harris and chorus girls, but this cannot be said to represent the theatre as a whole. Serious actor managers do artistic work and conduct their theatres well. Irving would not have bothered with the attacks of Moore and Quilter if they had not been disseminated so widely, and inspired similar writings from [E. St J.] Brenon, C.S[cott], and Mr [H.A.] Jones bewailing the decline of the theatre. Can Burnand give him a few hints, - he is to have a public breakfast in Birmingham. He refers to Willard & S.T. Florrie Toole is ill with gout in Edinburgh and Johnnie has been anxious. (Postscript) Why don't some of Burnand's girls call on Ellen Terry at ... Cliftonville, Margate. It would delight her to see them.
Published: L. Irving, p.496-97(with omission).
Notes: Charles Harris was a young stage manager working with Henry Pettitt and George R. Sims at the Gaiety Theatre. Harry Quilter (as Irving mentions, once engaged to the actress Miss Fortescue) was editor of the 'Universal Review' which published an attack on the theatre by George Moore. A typewritten transcript is at DUL Add. Ms.832/14.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/1/28)
Ref.No: 1042    
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