| Author: | Burnand, Francis Cowley | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | 192, Brompton Road, S.W. | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1885, July, 16 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | His work on 'La Dame de St Tropez' was interrupted as he had to produce 'The O'Dora'. He is resuming work and should deliver the bulk when Irving starts 'Faust'. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Burnand was revising 'The Isle of St Tropez' for Irving, who did not in the end produce it. Burnand's burlesque 'The O'Dora; or, A wrong accent' was produced at Toole's Theatre on 13th July. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/19) | ||
| Ref.No: | 8713 | ||
| Author: | Burnand, Francis Cowley | ||
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| Address: | 192, Brompton Road, S.W. | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1890], March, 17 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | The other evening Irving more or less said "yes, in time" about 'La Dame de St Tropez' and Burnand and Williams still hope, but he met Beerbohm & Mrs Tree at a party where they talked about Miss Herbert and the Wigans. Their play was mentioned in which the two had impressed. Tree was curious and Burnand, without mentioning that Irving owned the revised version, believes Tree would like to produce it and Mrs Tree play the aggrieved wife. If Irving would decide he would not do it Tree might take it at the same terms. He has said nothing to Tree nor Montagu Williams. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | The address is written at the foot of the letter. Burnand and Montagu Williams first collaborated on 'The Isle of St Tropez' in 1860, but the later revised version was not produced by either Irving or Tree. Miss Louisa Herbert was later known as Louisa Rochfort. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/19) | ||
| Ref.No: | 8719 | ||
| Author: | Burnand, Francis Cowley | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | Whitefriars, London | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1887?], Feb., 1 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He refers to the Witches Kitchen which he has not yet seen. He thanks Irving for the excellent lively party notably involving George Augustus [Sala]. He heard Irving left early and supposes [Thomas?] Thorne, [David] James and Johnie [Toole] managed Monday's performance. He will be in touch again as he has seen the magistrate Armitage. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Confusingly addressed to "Sir Henry" presumably as a joke. The Witches Kitchen scene was added to 'Faust' in November 1886 and this seems to refer to the large dinner to mark the 300th performance of the play given by Irving at the Continental Hotel on 30th January 1887. Burnand's legal business is unidentified. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/19) | ||
| Ref.No: | 8724 | ||
| Author: | Coquelin, Constant Benôit | ||
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| Address: | Walsingham House Hotel, Piccadilly | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1879], July, 10 Thursday | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Invitation for Irving to supper at the Carlton at 11.45pm with some good friends. Irving is always in his heart. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Partly in English, partly in French. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/20) | ||
| Ref.No: | 628 | ||
| Author: | Burnand, Francis Cowley | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | [192, Brompton Road, S.W.] | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1885?], [Dec.?], [5?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | The drama cannot be burlesqued as it is. He did it twice years before, only as versions of the standard story. Until he sees this restored version staged he cannot find much to burlesque. Were it not for Johnnie [Toole] he would not do it. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | This note on a half sheet of paper, not addressed to Irving, and signed with initials, may possibly be a postscript to Letter 8734. Burnand wrote many burlesques for J.L. Toole and had already burlesqued the Faust story in 1864 and 1869. His Letter 1090 describes Irving's production as difficult to burlesque. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/19) | ||
| Ref.No: | 8735 | ||
| Author: | Hare, John | ||
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| Address: | Garrick Theatre, Charing Cross | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1892, June, 14 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He congratulates Irving on receiving an Honorary Degree from the University of Dublin. Irving deserves the honour and all his brother actors must rejoice.(Postscript:) Sent by hand to be the first. Don't answer. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/26) | ||
| Ref.No: | 1732 | ||
| Author: | Ellis, George | ||
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| Address: | 8, Bolton Road, St. John's Wood | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1889, April, 4 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Anything uncommon relating to the theatrical profession must interest Irving. Ellis has a large painting (not for sale) by Fuseli of the first meeting of Macbeth and the witches. He describes a number of its features both accountable and unaccountable. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | THM/37/7/38 contains a letter to Ellis from Frederick B. Senior, Town Clerk of Richmond, 27 June, 1894, about the burial of Edmund Kean, which was presumably sent on to Irving. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/23) | ||
| Ref.No: | 1147 | ||
| Author: | Rothschild, Ferdinand James de | ||
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| Address: | - | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1888?] Monday | ||
| Document Type: | Postcard (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Has much pleasure in enclosing the cheque for the Dramatic Society. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | This may be the Dramatic Club referred to in Letter 5319, or, less likely, a donation to a theatrical charity. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/37) | ||
| Ref.No: | 3901 | ||
| Author: | Tennyson, Hallam | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | Aldworth, Haslemere, Surrey | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1882, Jan., 1 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | 'The Foresters' is much altered as printed. Hallam thinks it a "good old masque-comedy". He will bring it up any day so they can lunch and discuss the play. 'The Bower' is also printed - according to George Lewis, the most dramatic play since Shakespeare - and he will bring it up too. He wants it published or played somewhere.(Postscript:) He doesn't trust the post. | ||
| Published: | Tennyson, Letters, vol.3, p.217. | ||
| Notes: | Marked: Private. 'The Bower' was an early version of 'Becket', privately printed in 1879. A further postscript at head of the letter asks whether his father should support the Dramatic School. They think it should be on a larger scale with a boarding house for the young women. The School of Dramatic Art opened in October 1882. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/40) | ||
| Ref.No: | 3037 | ||
| Author: | Conway, Henry B. | ||
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| Address: | Merton Abbey, Merton, Surrey | ||
| Recipient: | Stoker, Bram (Abraham) | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1886, June, 2 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Please thank Irving for allowing him to play at the New Club. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Conway had been displaced from 'Faust' but was obviously still under contract to Irving. The New Club is unidentified. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/44) | ||
| Ref.No: | 8755 | ||