| Author: | Victor, Mary Ann | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | Grecian Theatre | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1880], Nov., 8 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | She asks for an order for the next Wednesday morning. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | In the third person. 2 stalls Wed morng 8/11/80; to see 'The Corsican Brothers'. | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 8245 | ||
| Author: | Rorke, Mary | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | 7 Beverley Road, Barnes Common | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1895], May, 7 Thursday | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | As she is going to play in 'King Arthur' she would like to come to all the matinees. She asks for seats for the next day. She has begun to study Goneril from 'King Lear' from Knight's Shakespeare and also from French's Acting Edition and finds they differ greatly. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Sent 7/5/95. | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 8252 | ||
| Author: | Rockman, Ray | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | The Howard Hotel, Norfolk Street, Victoria Embankment | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 189[9], April, 24 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | She asks for a letter of introduction to Mr Pinero. He is producing a new play at Terry's [Theatre] and she hears there are several parts. A recommendation from Irving has great influence. She is glad of Irving's success and health. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Pinero written to & R.R. told 24/4/99. Ray Rockman did not appear in London in 1899 after leaving the Lyceum. She wrote to Stoker thanking him for the introduction and complaining about his illegible handwriting. | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 8251 | ||
| Author: | Standing, Herbert | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | Bonham House, 53, Finchley Road, N.W. | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | [London] | ||
| Date: | [1882], [Feb.], [5?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | The next Wednesday, 8th, he will play Martel in Herman Merivale's adaptation of Ponsard's 'Le Leon Amoureux'. Can Irving, for old time's sake, come to one act for an hour at 3 o'clock? He is trying to do better work for the first time for some years. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | And 8/2/82 hoped to ... HI(?) determined 8/2/82. The play has not yet been identified. | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 8282 | ||
| Author: | Standing, Percy Cross | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | 104 Marylebone Road. (The Playgoers Club, Strand, W.C. crossed through) | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Laurence Sidney Brodribb | ||
| Address: | [London] | ||
| Date: | [1897], [Dec.] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He wishes to see first performance of 'Peter the Great' for press and personal reasons. He asks for 2 stalls and sends envelope. He had tried to see him at the Lyceum the previous day. Frightful news about Terriss. Please thank Sir Henry for him for wiring 'the Word" he asked for. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Laurence forwarded the letter to Stoker who allotted DC 195 to Standing. Henry Irving was on provincial tour until 18th December. William Terriss was murdered on 16th December. | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 8284 | ||
| Author: | Standing, Herbert | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | 24, Haymarket, S.W. | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | [London] | ||
| Date: | [1898], [April], [14?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Some time before Mr Traill told Standing he had recommended him to Irving for a part in his new play. He knows he has missed that, but wonders if Irving might find him anything later on. He is not in the new play at the Criterion though 'The Liars' seems likely to run to the end of the season. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Regret HI 15/4/98. Traill was joint author of 'The Medicine Man'. 'The Liars' by Henry Arthur Jones, in which Standing played Gilbert Nepean, ran until November 1898, and he remained in employment. | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 8285 | ||
| Author: | Stannard, Henrietta Eliza Vaughan “John Strange Winter” | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | 45 Palace Gardens Terrace, Kensington, W. | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | [New York] | ||
| Date: | 1895, Nov., 11 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Thanks for agreeing and letting them know quickly - they are both very pleased. She gives the full name. Mrs Jopling is one of the godmothers and the christening is on 22nd to suit the Lawson Taits who are coming up for Mrs Keeley's birthday then touring in Kent. She prefers London, and describes a visit to see 'The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown', the Lord Mayor's Show and gives family news. She has not been to 'Romeo and Juliet' - and criticises Forbes- Robertson & Mrs Patrick Campbell. Miss M.A. Victor was good in 'Miss Brown', looking like a "benign old sheep". | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | The inscription for a christening cup is written at the head of the letter in pencil: Olivia Nancy M[argaret] L[ouise] Stannard with love from Henry Irving 23 Nov 1895. Irving was on tour in America. Mary Anne Keeley had been a celebrated actress. | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 8309 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | Lyceum Theatre | ||
| Recipient: | Stead, William Thomas | ||
| Address: | [London] | ||
| Date: | 1897, Feb., 2 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | It is hard to reconcile Stead's comment that he has never been to the theatre with his enthusiastic account of Oberammergau play. Presumably Stead values the stage as an educational tool but fears the intellectual danger of theatres, but surely Stead cannot approach theatre on Irving's level. If Stead thinks it immoral, how can Irving refute without tacitly admitting some dishonour. Irving believes even the primitive stage a forceful and wholesome teacher, elevating man's spirit. He would be proud to state this publicly, but cannot say so in Stead's periodical without discrediting his own values. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | A reply to Letter 5345. In Stoker's hand and probably drafted by him, unsigned, it is marked "Private" and then in pencil "Not sent". In 1904 in a letter to Stoker Stead states that Irving had suggested he went round theatres, writing his impressions, for the 'Pall Mall Gazette'. | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 8313 | ||
| Author: | Thalberg, T.B. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | 33 Knights Park, Kingston on Thames | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1894, May, 18 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | As it has been announced that Mr Terriss will leave at the end of the season he applies to take his place in the theatre, or for the part of Lancelot in 'King Arthur'. Since his return from America he has been playing 'Captain Swift' on tour with Mr Macklin. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Regret HI 31/5/94. | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 5379 | ||
| Author: | Turnerelli, Edward Tracy | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | Tracy Lodge, Leamington | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | [Birmingham?] | ||
| Date: | 1894, Sept., 24 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | They have corresponded for many years at a distance but Irving is now at Birmingham. If he comes to Leamington perhaps he might visit Turnerelli for a few minutes. He once spoke to Edmund Kean and knew Charles Kean well and is now old. In case Irving does not leave Birmingham he sends a photograph of the monument he created for his father, much visited because of its originality ... | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Thanked by Irving 25/9/94. Turnerelli describes himself as a "true admirer" of Irving. | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 5395 | ||