| Author: | Hartley, May (Mary) | ||
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| Address: | 4 Cross Avenue, Blackrock, Dublin | ||
| Recipient: | Stoker, Bram (Abraham) | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1884], Aug., 8 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Stoker's letter stating facts was forwarded from London. Miss Pullen wants to understudy in the Lyceum company. She is beautiful, clever and hardworking, only 21 or 22 and would have been a good Viola. Frederic Leighton has painted her in pictures for 3 or 4 years and takes a strong interest as does Hartley. She realises Irving cannot take chances but he should see and hear her. Her address: 83 The Chase, Clapham. (Postscript: Don't bother to write.) | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Ticked. Ada Alice Pullen went on stage as Dorothy Dene but did not act with Irving. | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 7961 | ||
| Author: | Hollingshead, John | ||
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| Address: | Gaiety Theatre, Strand | ||
| Recipient: | Loveday, Henry Joseph "Harry" | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1880, June, 21 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Can they borrow his stage from time to time to rehearse American piece? Would like it the next day. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | The answer is not recorded. | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 7973 | ||
| Author: | Hollingshead, John | ||
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| Address: | 3, Garrick Mansions, 12, Charing Cross Road, [W.C.] | ||
| Recipient: | Stoker, Bram (Abraham) | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1899, April, 14 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Thanks for the ticket. He hopes the young lady who will attend might join Lyceum (in crowd if necessary) with some understudy. She can go on tour and to America with the company but Hollingshead has refused a 'Belle of New York' offer for her. Give Irving his kindest regards and wish him great success. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | A ticket for the first night of 'Robespierre' the next day. Hollingshead's change of address visiting card is attached. Hollingshead's young lady may be the Miss Foster(?) referred to in Letter 1484. | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 7974 | ||
| Author: | Hading, Jane | ||
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| Address: | Royal Palace Hotel, Kensington | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1882], [June], [6?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | She deeply regrets he will not be at the Monday matinee. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | In French, addressed to "Cher Grand Camerade". This was probably a special matinee for members of the theatrical profession. The note indicates that Irving would sign the reply, 7/6/82. | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 7979 | ||
| Author: | McLeay, Franklin | ||
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| Address: | Her Majesty's Theatre | ||
| Recipient: | Stoker, Bram (Abraham) | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1898, Feb., 5 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He denies to Stoker and Irving that he was responsible for the published paragraphs regarding the offer of employment. He had not mentioned that Irving had asked him to play Tolstoi, and certainly not that the part was Alexis - a departure from professional ethics. He would not have mentioned it, but cuttings showed they had to issue a correction. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | With 4 photographs of McLeay and cuttings about him which may have belonged in Letter 5230. The reply note indicates the McLeay was told that the misstatement was definitely not attributed to him. William Mackintosh played Tolstoi in 'Peter the Great' and Alexis was played by Robert Taber. | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 7981 | ||
| Author: | Reichenberg, Suzanne | ||
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| Address: | [Paris?] | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1898], [Jan.], [4?] | ||
| Document Type: | Postcard (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Irving was always kind during her stays in London, and she asks a favour. She leaves the theatre in January and gives a farewell performance in February. Would he come and play on their great stage, where they would acclaim him. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | In French, addressed to "Cher grande Artiste". The reply on 7/1/98 was clearly a refusal. Mlle Reichenberg is recorded as playing in London in 1891 & 1893. | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 7982 | ||
| Author: | Mansfield, Richard | ||
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| Address: | The Shoreham, Washington, DC | ||
| Recipient: | Stoker, Bram (Abraham) | ||
| Address: | [London] | ||
| Date: | 1897, Jan., 20 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Sorry to hear of Irving's accident which he hopes not serious. Richard III nearly killed him twice and he has damaged kneecap. Irving works too hard. He hears the 'Richard III' production was suberb. He knows Irving does not like him, but tell him Mansfield, despite his sins, harks back to the old days. He offers to come over if Irving is suffering financially. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Irving had damaged tendons after the first night of 'Richard III'. He did not like Mansfield in the part, and Mansfield had left England heavily indebted to Irving. Irving may have appreciated the irony of the situation. | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 7983 | ||
| Author: | Reece, Robert | ||
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| Address: | 10 Eton Road, Haverstock Hill, N.W. | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1883, March, 20 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He has just heard from Spellen in Edinburgh that Irving had advanced him. He thanks Irving again for kindness to the son of his mother's brother, John North Spellen the Parliamentary reporter. He details family history, referring to a fellow journalist Dunphie, Levy [Edward Levy-Lawson] and Alfred Tennyson his sister's godfather, who played with Spellen as a boy. Irving had asked Reece to 'Much Ado' but did not write. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | The letter is headed: Friday, which may be the day on which Reece was sent a ticket. The Lyceum was closed 19th-23rd March. Spellen had been "subordinating" at the Lyceum; see Letter 3389. | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 5292 | ||
| Author: | Mortimer, James | ||
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| Address: | The London Figaro, St Bride Street and Shoe Lane, E.C. | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1882, March, 24 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Thanks for the cheque Stoker sent that morning. He had kind note from Hare and Kendal offering cooperation. Since Irving does not wish to study Sir Harcourt Courtly he lists a suggested cast for 3 acts. The programme might begin with Mortimer's version of 'La Joie Fait Peur', followed by Irving's act and ending with the 3 acts of 'London Assurance'. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Mortimer was trying to organize a benefit performance. Letter 4448 on 15th April is a formal request to Irving to appear. | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 5246 | ||
| Author: | Lacy, Walter | ||
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| Address: | 33 Maddox St W. | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1880, May, 16 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Thanks for stalls for the RAM Secretary. He asks for 2 more for the next Tuesday for Lilly Garcia the sister of Senor Garcia, just back from Madrid. Good wishes for the revival of Sir Tristram [Tristan]. (Postscript:} He discusses Ada Fellows - her mistake in opening as Juliet after he offered to coach her as Belvidera or Mrs Haller - Dr Whitty her guardian had taken the Imperial Theatre with awful results - gratuitous cruelty of reviews. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Note: 2 stalls sent 17/5/80. Addressed "My dear Irving". Gustave Garcia taught at the Royal Academy of Music. Irving was reviving 'Iolanthe' which he had played at his benefit with Helen Faucit in 1876. Lacy thought Ada Fellows more suited to heavier tragic parts. | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 7993 | ||