| Author: | Morning Leader | ||
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| Address: | Ludgate Circus PO London | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton | ||
| Date: | 1897, Dec., 16 9.35 | ||
| Document Type: | Telegram | ||
| Content Summary: | William Terriss dead, stabbed tonight. Expression sympathy from Irving deeply valued. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Reply prepaid. Terriss was stabbed outside the Adelphi Theatre at just after 7 pm. | ||
| Document Holder: | SCL (Reference: RL2/6/481) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6780 | ||
| Author: | Comédie Française | ||
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| Address: | Comédie Française, Paris | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1895, May, 28 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Congratulations from the Committee of the Comédie Française and Associates of the Maison de Molière on Irving's knighthood with elegant compliments. | ||
| Published: | M. Russell-Cotes, Home and Abroad, Vol.2 (Facsimile). | ||
| Notes: | In French. Signed by the administrator, Jules Claretie, and by the members of the company. The document is lithographed. | ||
| Document Holder: | SCL (Reference: RL2/6/366) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4728 | ||
| Author: | Comédie Française | ||
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| Address: | Paris (On Lyceum Theatre paper) | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | [London] | ||
| Date: | 1895, May, 28 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Warm elaborately expressed congratulations from the Committee of the Comédie Française and the Societaires of the House of Molière on Irving's knighthood. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | A full translation of Letter 4728. | ||
| Document Holder: | SCL (Reference: RL2/6/367) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6630 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | Royal Lyceum Theatre, Strand (Royal & Strand crossed through) | ||
| Recipient: | Not known | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1881, July, 6 | ||
| Document Type: | Misc.Document (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Mr Irving presents his compliments to [ ] & requests pleasure of his company to dinner on Tuesday 17 July at 8 o'clock - to meet some members of the Meiningen Court Company. Entrance in Burleigh St. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Draft in Irving's hand for copying or printing. The date helps resolve the change in form of name of the Theatre. A further proof of the invitation altered from one for February 1880 is preserved in RL2/12/5. | ||
| Document Holder: | SCL (Reference: RL2/8/6) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6797 | ||
| Author: | Vellère, Edouard Raphael Weller | ||
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| Address: | The English and Continental College, Harrow | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | [London] | ||
| Date: | 1883, May, 29 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He has for some time wondered whether the enclosed is Irving's portrait or not, or the name under it his. Text is in bombastic German which he offers to translate. He asks for a corner on stage at one of Irving's future gatherings for his friends. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Enclosed is a cutting from the 'Allgemeine Illustrirte Zeitung' including a reproduction of the portrait of Irving as Vanderdecken, labelled as Edwin Booth as Hamlet. RL2/48 contains a cutting from the 'Weekly Music & Dramatic', New York, April 28, 1883 with the same wrongly labelled illustration, presumably the original of the German article. | ||
| Document Holder: | SCL (Reference: RL2/6/404(i-ii)) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6811 | ||
| Author: | Birrell, Thomas | ||
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| Address: | Nightingale House, Royal Leamington Spa | ||
| Recipient: | Stoker, Bram (Abraham) | ||
| Address: | [London] | ||
| Date: | 1895, July, 15 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He has received the cheque from Sir Henry. It will help him greatly to go out again with his Diorama. He is sorry he has no history of the jewel, bought from a jeweller about 23 years before. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Enclosed is a receipt signed and stamped by Birrell to Bram Stoker for £20, the full price of "a Masonic jewell, a relict of Edmund Kean". | ||
| Document Holder: | SCL (Reference: RL2/7/104) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6818 | ||
| Author: | Bland, Samuel | ||
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| Address: | Wells Green, Gloucester | ||
| Recipient: | Stoker, Bram (Abraham) | ||
| Address: | [London] | ||
| Date: | 1891, July, 8 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Invites Stoker to a public Banquet in honour of Ellen Terry and Henry Irving at the Bell Hotel, Gloucester on Tuesday 28th July at 8 o'clock. Irving and Ellen Terry are visiting to celebrate the Centenary of the theatre in Gloucester. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | With 2 cuttings from the 'Gloucester Chronicle' 1/8/91. Irving and Ellen Terry devoted their services to local charitable institutions. | ||
| Document Holder: | SCL (Reference: RL2/7/105) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6819 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | Lyceum Theatre | ||
| Recipient: | Thomas, William Moy | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1883, April, 14 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Begs Moy Thomas to set right a misapprehension re a mis-qotation of Irving's words last Wednesday evening. Irving spoke of the growth of public performances of amateurs to which professional actors lend their support. 'The Era' has fairly reported Irving's words: "I cannot help thinking the actors themselves are a little to blame for the support they have accorded to these amateur performances. We are all amateurs at some time and earnest amateurs hope to become actors - but until they do it is a pity that the actors should take part." From the ranks of amateurs many actors come and Irving has nothing against the acting of amateur societies. He is the President of more than one such club but he holds that the two developments of the actors' art - the professional and the amateur - should for many reasons, be left absolutely distinct. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | P | ||
| Ref.No: | 6831 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | Lyceum Theatre | ||
| Recipient: | Thomas, William Moy | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1890, Feb., 22 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | There is some confusion about Coquelin's visit to the Lyceum. He came there to see 'The Dead Heart' last week. Coquelin Cadet has not, he believes, seen the play as yet. Coquelin's visit was a most delightful one. Irving encloses a copy of an interesting letter from Coquelin in which he speaks his generous appreciation. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Coquelin's letter not with Irving's. | ||
| Document Holder: | P | ||
| Ref.No: | 6828 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | The Palace Hotel, Edinburgh | ||
| Recipient: | Willard, Edward Smith | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1904, Nov., 11 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He is afraid it is the old story; the rank and file of actors will not properly support the fund. Irving has been advocating their doing so for years without effect. He is getting tired of it and with experience of so many years of indifference he fears it is useless to expect a new generation to be different. Irving's experience is that actors will take part in performance but not give money. Tree played 'Trilby' for the Fund a few days ago. He hopes all goes well. Was told that Willard will have a splendid success in 'Justinian' and take America by storm. Comment re Barrett (indecipherable). | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | P | ||
| Ref.No: | 6842 | ||