| Author: | Buckstone, John Baldwin | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | Theatre Royal, Haymarket | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | 170 Cornwall Road, Ladbroke Grove | ||
| Date: | 1873, Dec., 10 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Will he meet a young acquaintance of Buckstone's, already a published poet, who has written a five act tragedy. His name is Fosbroke, age 23. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Addressed "Dear Sir" and possibly not originally to Irving who has no association with the address, which is written on the back of the folded note. John Baldwin Fosbroke, with same first names as Buckstone, published poems in 1872 & 1873. The letter might have been sent to Hezekiah Bateman? | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/18) | ||
| Ref.No: | 463 | ||
| Author: | Buckstone, John Baldwin | ||
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| Address: | Theatre Royal, Haymarket | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1876, March, 14 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter | ||
| Content Summary: | He asks Irving to play Joseph Surface in 'The School for Scandal' for Buckstone's benefit to celebrate 50 years on stage, to be held at Drury Lane on Wedesday 10th May 1876 matinée. He is asking Phelps, Sims Reeves, Helen Faucit and many others. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | The matinée actually took place on Thursday 8th June, with Irving playing Joseph Surface. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/18) | ||
| Ref.No: | 464 | ||
| Author: | Benson, Frank Robert (Francis Robert) | ||
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| Address: | The Globe Theatre, London WC | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1889?], Dec., 16 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He thanks Irving for his kind letter and good wishes. He feels pride and gratitude having started under Irving's management and kindness. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | This may record good wishes for the opening of Benson's season as manager at the Globe Theatre. He began his acting career in 1882 as Paris in Irving's 'Romeo and Juliet'. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/16) | ||
| Ref.No: | 471 | ||
| Author: | Benson, Frank Robert (Francis Robert) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | The Globe Theatre | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1890?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He thanks Irving for his kind note. He comments on playing Hamlet - he does not fancy himself in the part. He will be delighted to see Irving in front, but nervous. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | This may refer to Benson's first production of 'Hamlet' on 6th March 1890 when he did play the Prince. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/16) | ||
| Ref.No: | 472 | ||
| Author: | Benson, Frank Robert (Francis Robert) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | - | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1891?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | A long detailed proposal for an Actors' Association, hoping to engage Irving's interest. Costing for a month for two rooms would be £175 - Benson would provide half that sum. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Marked 2 in upper right hand corner. An Actors' Association was founded by Benson and Robert Courtneidge in Manchester at a meeting on Sunday 1st February 1891, after the failure of an ill-starred Actors' Exchange founded in 1883. Irving offered some support and a meeting was held at the Lyceum on 5th March 1891, setting up the Association, with the first general meeting there on 29th April. Irving was elected President. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/16) | ||
| Ref.No: | 473 | ||
| Author: | Benson, Frank Robert (Francis Robert) | ||
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| Address: | Grand Hotel, Plymouth | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1892?], Oct., 4 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Requests for a photograph, and for Irving to propose Benson for the Garrick Club. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Benson was elected to the Garrick Club in 1893. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/16) | ||
| Ref.No: | 474 | ||
| Author: | Bourchier, Arthur | ||
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| Address: | Christ Church, Oxford | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1889], [Feb.], [22?] Friday | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He wishes Irving could come down on Tuesday afternoon. Harry's scenes are all over by 4 and "he is A1 in them". | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | H.B. Irving played Decius Brutus in an undergraduate production of 'Julius Caesar' on 27th February 1889. Bourchier played Marcus Brutus. Irving decided not to attend. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/17) | ||
| Ref.No: | 475 | ||
| Author: | Bourchier, Arthur | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | Garrick Club (to be forwarded) | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1889?], Nov., 8 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Does Irving know any good authority for the make-up of Bishop Gardiner? A beard or not? If he does not know do not bother to answer. He hopes that the guillotine and Bastille are not making Irving ill. They go to the Court, Liverpool, then Edinburgh, &c. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Bishop Stephen Gardiner is a character in Shakespeare's 'Henry VIII' in which Bourchier was presumably touring. The French Revolution references are presumably to 'The Dead Heart' which opened 28th September 1889. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/17) | ||
| Ref.No: | 476 | ||
| Author: | Browning, Oscar | ||
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| Address: | "The Footlights", Cambridge & King's College, Cambridge | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1889?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | As President of the Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club he informs Irving that he has unanimously been elected an Honorary Member and hopes that he will accept membership. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Browning was President in 1889-90. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/18) | ||
| Ref.No: | 480 | ||
| Author: | Coleman, John | ||
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| Address: | 21b, Soho Square, W | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1882, April, 21 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | A plaintive begging letter asking Irving for £100 in order to avert a scandal for Coleman. He is being forced to close down the Olympic Theatre and is in 'a sea of trouble'. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Marked 'Private - in the confidence of honour.' | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/20) | ||
| Ref.No: | 481 | ||