| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | Plaza Hotel, 5th Avenue, 58 & 59 Street, New York | ||
| Recipient: | Bernhardt, Sarah Henriette Rosine | ||
| Address: | Hoffman House, New York | ||
| Date: | 189[6], May, 20 | ||
| Document Type: | Telegram | ||
| Content Summary: | Love & greeting - to his dear queen of hearts - hopes to meet in London. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Draft telegram addressed to "Sarah"; her address is added in Stoker's hand. Also added is the name of journalist Parke Godwin. Irving sailed from New York on 20th May. | ||
| Document Holder: | SCL (Reference: RL2/6/3) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6208 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | [Boston?] | ||
| Recipient: | Billington, Adeline | ||
| Address: | Lyceum Theatre | ||
| Date: | 1899, Nov., 27 | ||
| Document Type: | Telegram | ||
| Content Summary: | Love & greeting, warmest wishes. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Draft telegram. Mrs Billington appeared in a matinee performance of 3 short plays at the Lyceum on 28th November. | ||
| Document Holder: | SCL (Reference: RL2/6/4) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6209 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | Lyceum Theatre | ||
| Recipient: | Gomez | ||
| Address: | St James's Hotel, New York | ||
| Date: | 1889, May, 3 | ||
| Document Type: | Telegram | ||
| Content Summary: | Good wishes - Nectar fit for gods. Thousand thanks. Hopes to see them in July. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Draft telegram addressed to Gomez (or possibly Gomer), unidentified, and Florence, probably the actor William Jermyn Florence. | ||
| Document Holder: | SCL (Reference: RL2/6/145) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6216 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | 15A, Grafton Street, Bond Street, W. | ||
| Recipient: | Stoker, Bram (Abraham) | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1880, Sept., 25 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Give Loveday the enclosed advert which is equally telling & much cheaper. Put same in all Monday's papers & 'Observer' next day. 'Dot' begins at 3. Stoker and Loveday had better meet him there in Box 7. He does not want the box reserved for that night so it can be sold. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | The production of 'Dot' may have involved J.L. Toole. | ||
| Document Holder: | SCL (Reference: RL2/6/130) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6228 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | 15A, Grafton Street, Bond Street, W. | ||
| Recipient: | Stoker, Bram (Abraham) | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1884], [May?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | This may be of use for that night. (Postscript:) Salvini's Othello. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Tommaso Salvini returned to England in 1884 with a London season at the end of February when Irving was in America, so this may be a ticket for his final performance in London at the end of May. The envelope for this letter may be in RL2/6/94. | ||
| Document Holder: | SCL (Reference: RL2/6/96) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6236 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | 15A, Grafton Street, Bond Street, W. | ||
| Recipient: | Stoker, Bram (Abraham) | ||
| Address: | Lyceum Theatre | ||
| Date: | [1888], [July] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Don't forget passports & letter to [Richard] Mansfield (City of Rome) to come on to Patterdale, Penrith. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | With envelope sent by hand. The City of Rome was the ship on which Richard Mansfield was leaving England. Irving was going to visit Frank Marshall at Patterdale at the end of the Lyceum season. (See Letter 2565.) | ||
| Document Holder: | SCL (Reference: RL2/6/143) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6256 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | Lyceum Theatre | ||
| Recipient: | Stoker, Bram (Abraham) | ||
| Address: | Lyceum Theatre | ||
| Date: | [1895], [Jan.], [17] Thursday | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Young Boucicault has appointment at 1 o'clock that day to discuss Australian trip. Give him Irving's love - sorry he cannot come in that day - & chat with him about it - Irving and Stoker have talked this over before and Stoker can hear Boucicault's views. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Written in pencil. Hand delivered envelope marked "Important", signed by Irving and dated by Stoker. | ||
| Document Holder: | SCL (Reference: RL2/6/185) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6287 | ||
| Author: | Fane, Spencer Cecil Brabazon Ponsonby | ||
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| Address: | Lord Chamberlain's Office, St James's Palace, S.W. | ||
| Recipient: | Lathom, Edward Bootle-Wilbraham | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1889, Sept., 20 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Comments on the ending of the Irving burlesque at the Gaiety Theatre, and the manager George Edwardes, with proposed action. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Irving had been caricatured in the burlesque 'Ruy Blas', dancing in a quartet in woman's clothes, and complained to the Lord Chamberlain. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/1/29) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6340 | ||
| Author: | Fane, Spencer Cecil Brabazon Ponsonby | ||
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| Address: | Brympton, Yeovil | ||
| Recipient: | Lathom, Edward Bootle-Wilbraham | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1889, Sept., 27 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | The enclosed shows trouble about the Gaiety and Irving. He has told Hertslet to threaten Edwardes that his licence will not be renewed, an unadvoidable strong measure. He returns to London the next day and will try to reason with Edwardes. Has Lathom any suggestions?... | ||
| Published: | L. Irving, p.517 (part). | ||
| Notes: | Edwardes was slow to end the Irving caricature at the Gaiety Theatre. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/1/29) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6341 | ||
| Author: | Fane, Spencer Cecil Brabazon Ponsonby | ||
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| Address: | Lord Chamberlain's Office, St James's Palace, S.W. | ||
| Recipient: | Lathom, Edward Bootle-Wilbraham | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1889, Sept., 30 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Whilst interviewing managers he found that in general sympathy is with Irving rather than Edwardes, particularly as the entertainment was not withdrawn, but all regard Irving as sensitive. Irving said he did not mind being burlesqued but objected to being made ridiculous. Edwardes said it was a harmless skit. He apologised for an inaccurate paragraph in which he accused the Lord Chamberlain of being biased by his friendship with Irving. It will now end and do good... | ||
| Published: | L. Irving, p.517-18 (part). | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/1/29) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6342 | ||