| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | 15A Grafton Street, Bond Street, W. | ||
| Recipient: | Knight, Joseph | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1873?], July, 10(?) | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Irving requests a few preliminary words about 19th. (Postscript:) He would welcome the presence of Knight and his people at the Lyceum. At Macready's sale he bought 3 very interesting vols of the 'Tatler'. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Irving performed in 'The Bells' for his benefit on 19th July 1873, and the sale of Macready's Library, &c. was also that year. | ||
| Document Holder: | BL (Reference: Add.MS.62696.f.167.) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6094 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | 15A Grafton Street, Bond Street, W. | ||
| Recipient: | Knight, Joseph | ||
| Address: | 27 Camden Square, N.W. | ||
| Date: | 1890, Jan., 11 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (5 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He identified Knight's recollections of his friend Westland Marston in the 'Pall Mall' and appreciates his affection for an honest man. Irving had talked to Helen Faucit that day who had spoken of Marston with almost affectionate regard. Irving is obliged to Knight for the privilege of his acquaintance. He wishes he met his old friend oftener, and had hoped to see him at the Garrick the previous night. He asked at No.8 a few days earlier and all seemed miserable. He hopes the trustees (and he will put the screw on too if he can) will be able to squeeze something (if only Frank's liabilities) from that ungrateful son. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | With stamped addressed envelope. The dramatist John Westland Marston died on 5th January 1890. Helen Faucit had acted in several of Marston's plays. No.8 Bloomsbury Square was the home of Irving's friend Frank Marshall, editor of the Irving Shakespeare, who had died on 28th December 1889, after a life of ill health and constant financial difficulties. | ||
| Document Holder: | BL (Reference: Add.MS.62696.f.159.) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6101 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | Curzon St [PO] | ||
| Recipient: | Terry, Ellen Alice | ||
| Address: | Her Majesty's Theatre. Haymarket | ||
| Date: | 1902, June, 10 | ||
| Document Type: | Telegram | ||
| Content Summary: | "Heaven give you many, many merry days and nights." | ||
| Published: | E. Terry, The Story of My Life, 1908, p.323. | ||
| Notes: | On the first night of Herbert Beerbohm Tree's production of 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' in which Ellen Terry played Meg Page. She had been released from the Lyceum, where she only played two matinees a week. Irving also wrote later delighting in her success. | ||
| Document Holder: | BL (Reference: Loan MS 125/29/5 (ETArchive ET IN,I Z1,235)) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6114 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | Lyceum Theatre | ||
| Recipient: | Wright, William | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1889, Nov., 29 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Profound apologies for the loss of Watts Phillips' interesting letter. To make it good he sends another Phillips letter and one from Dickens. He is glad to comply with the request for the 'Dead Heart' souvenir. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Written by Louis Austin and signed by Irving, with the Dickens letter inserted in his hand. Addressed "Dear Sir", but see Letters 4148, 5937. Stoker preserves a copy of a letter from Watts Phillips to Ben Webster about 'A Lion at Bay' which may be the letter concerned. | ||
| Document Holder: | P | ||
| Ref.No: | 6115 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | 15A, Grafton Street, Bond Street, W. | ||
| Recipient: | Bennett | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1886, Jan., 9 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He will be glad if his testimony to her father will help her. His old friend James Bennett was an admirable actor, and in the prime of life an important tragedian. He always respected his calling as he respected himself, and was honorable in all his dealings. With good wishes. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Written by Louis Austin, and signed by Irving who adds the day's date. Letter 168 suggests that Irving in 1883 was paying a monthly pension to Bennett, a tragedian (in later life mostly in the provinces), who died in 1885. | ||
| Document Holder: | P | ||
| Ref.No: | 6118 | ||
| Author: | Stoker, Bram (Abraham) | ||
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| Address: | Provincial and American Tour, 1899-1900. (Liverpool.) | ||
| Recipient: | Shea, O.W. | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1899, Oct., 11 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Irving asks him to express regret that he will not be able to be present on 17th at the Benefit for his old friend John Hollingshead as he will be at sea on his way to America. He will be happy to have his name on the Committee & encloses cheque. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | "& encloses cheque" may be inserted by Irving. The recipient's name may possibly be Shean. | ||
| Document Holder: | P | ||
| Ref.No: | 6120 | ||
| Author: | St George, Julia | ||
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| Address: | 4, Albion Place, Staines Road, Hounslow, Middx | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1898, June, 10 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Can she revive past memories by seeing Irving in 'Louis XI'. Last time she saw it in Manchester when she was staying at H.B. Peacock's house in Stretford. At the end of Irving's lecture will he read the enclosed which is very dear to her and give it back when she sees him. She asks for an interview when she can return her lend loan - a debt of honour. She also has a souvenir of Charles Mathews she wishes Irving to have. She goes to Margate for 3 months because of her troublesome health. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | The enclosure is not present, and unidentified. The lecture may be the Cambridge Rede Lecture on 'The Theatre in its relation to the State' on 15th June. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/37) | ||
| Ref.No: | 3706 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | Lyceum Theatre? | ||
| Recipient: | Daily Graphic | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1899], [Feb.] | ||
| Document Type: | Misc.Document (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | (Writing as Lily Killarney.) He wonders if the Graphic objects to inserting a paragraph for the musical public as one did not appear, while he saw one that day concerning opera. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | A sarcastic draft written on the back of Lyceum Theatre paper. The Carl Rosa Opera Company was at the Lyceum for the week performing 'The Lily of Killarney' by Julius Benedict and Wagner's 'Tristan and Isolde'. | ||
| Document Holder: | SCL (Reference: RL2/6/9) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6166 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | Lyceum Theatre | ||
| Recipient: | Edward VII | ||
| Address: | Royal College of Music | ||
| Date: | 1897, April, 13 | ||
| Document Type: | Misc.Document (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | A report on the performance of 'Falstaff' by the students of the Royal College of Music at the Lyceum on 11 December 1896. Irving only comments on the admirable timing, remarking the general excellence and the credit reflected on the conductor Dr Villiers Stanford. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | A document well written by a clerk, signed and with additions by Irving and Stoker, which presumably required rewriting. Addressed to the Prince of Wales and the Council of the Royal College of Music. | ||
| Document Holder: | SCL (Reference: RL2/6/11) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6167 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | Hotel Bristol, New York | ||
| Recipient: | Gilbert, Ann | ||
| Address: | Annie Russell Co., Olympic Theatre, St Louis, Mo. | ||
| Date: | 1901, Oct., 21 | ||
| Document Type: | Telegram (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Heartiest congratulations - love, honour & friendship on auspicious day. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Draft of a telegram in Irving's hand. Probably her 80th birthday. | ||
| Document Holder: | SCL (Reference: RL2/6/13) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6169 | ||