| Author: |
Fenn, George Manville
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1831-1909 novelist |
| Address: |
The Reform Club |
| Recipient: |
Irving, Sir Henry
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(John Henry Brodribb), 1838-1905 |
| Address: |
- |
| Date: |
1889, Feb., 16 |
| Document Type: |
Letter (2 p.) |
| Content Summary: |
Fenn is producing a comedy drama at a matinee in two or three weeks time. Asks a favour. The best actor for the leading part is Mr Wenman who is willing to play if Irving gives his permission. |
| Published: |
- |
| Notes: |
This is 'Her Ladyship' performed at the Strand Theatre on 27th March. |
| Document Holder: |
THM (Reference: THM/37/7/23) |
| Ref.No: |
1353 |
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| Author: |
Scott, Clement William
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1841-1904 critic, journalist |
| Address: |
52, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C. |
| Recipient: |
Irving, Sir Henry
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(John Henry Brodribb), 1838-1905 |
| Address: |
- |
| Date: |
[1889], [Feb.?] Sunday |
| Document Type: |
Letter (1 p.) |
| Content Summary: |
Savile Clarke made a statement to Scott the last night. Scott proposed to send this letter to [Richard] Mansfield to arrange a private meeting. It will not do for Scott to have his character assailed and he asks for Irving's help and influence. He encloses a letter from Mansfield to Scott. |
| Published: |
- |
| Notes: |
The letter(s) referred to are not present. See also letters from Mansfield to Irving about this controversy about Scott's imputed venality. |
| Document Holder: |
THM (Reference: THM/37/1/29) |
| Ref.No: |
4117 |
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| Author: |
Walters, Robert
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1832- barrister, member of Garrick Club |
| Address: |
Garrick Club, W.C. |
| Recipient: |
Irving, Sir Henry
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(John Henry Brodribb), 1838-1905 |
| Address: |
- |
| Date: |
1889, March, 2 |
| Document Type: |
Letter (3 p.) |
| Content Summary: |
Irving's generous present will have proper acknowledgement from the Committee that evening - he will receive it that night. It is a noble gift, offered in the kindest spirit, and accepted by the Club with enthusiasm. They should be careful where to place it for it must have an honorable place. |
| Published: |
- |
| Notes: |
This is Clint's scene with Edmund Kean from 'A New Way to Pay Old Debts'. Lewis Wingfield indicates that Irving had proposed the painting should hang over the mantelpiece in the Smoking Room but that the Committee thought a place on the stairs would be safer and more suitable. See Letter 4253. |
| Document Holder: |
THM (Reference: THM/37/7/42) |
| Ref.No: |
4254 |
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| Author: |
Scoones, William Baptiste Wordsworth
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1838/39-1906 educational writer, civil servant training diplomats |
| Address: |
Garrick Chambers, Garrick Street |
| Recipient: |
Irving, Sir Henry
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(John Henry Brodribb), 1838-1905 |
| Address: |
- |
| Date: |
[1889], [March] Monday pm |
| Document Type: |
Letter (3 p.) |
| Content Summary: |
He has received a letter from Victor Morier in reference to the request. Morier apologises, he has been in Finland. He questions about some of [Laurence Irving's] friends but there are no Bismarckian state secrets. Scoones was glad to read of H.B. Irving's success at Oxford. He takes after his (middle aged) father. |
| Published: |
- |
| Notes: |
Morier had presumably been asked to sponsor Laurence Irving in Russia, see Letter 3816. Harry Irving played Decius Brutus in 'Julius Caesar' at Oxford on 27th February 1889. |
| Document Holder: |
THM (Reference: THM/37/7/38) |
| Ref.No: |
3817 |
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| Author: |
Robins, Elizabeth (Elisabeth)
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Mrs George Richmond Parks,
1862?-1952 American actress |
| Address: |
10 Duchess St, Portland Place, W. |
| Recipient: |
Irving, Sir Henry
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(John Henry Brodribb), 1838-1905 |
| Address: |
[London] |
| Date: |
[1889], [March?] Wednesday a.m. |
| Document Type: |
Letter (4 p.) |
| Content Summary: |
She is disappointed in his letter per L.F. Austin. The unexpected ending of her engagement in 'Fauntleroy' causes great difficulty and if she does not find work in the next week or so she will have to return to America. She could be of use to the Lyceum Company so writes again. She mentions her 2 years at the Boston Museum and seasons with Edwin Booth and Herman Vezin. She believes she could show Irving she was a fit understudy as Portia for Miss Terry. His secretary says it is not in Irving's power to see or advise her at present but she doubts this and needs his help. |
| Published: |
- |
| Notes: |
Elizabeth Robins refers to this correspondence in 'Both sides of the curtain', 1940, pp.180-81. Lewis Austin was Irving's private secretary. Marion Terry had taken over the part she was playing in 'The real little Lord Fauntleroy'. |
| Document Holder: |
LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) |
| Ref.No: |
8428 |
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