| Author: | Coquelin, Constant Benôit | ||
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| Address: | The Walsingham House, Piccadilly | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1889?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Next Monday 'Le Maitre de Forges' is presented so he is free. Could he have a box for 'Macbeth' which his son has praised. He would like to see Irving in the interval to arrange a time to talk about America. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | In French. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/20) | ||
| Ref.No: | 632 | ||
| Author: | Coquelin, Ernest Alexandre Honoré | ||
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| Address: | Theatre de la Porte-Saint-Martin [Paris] | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1898?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Sympathy for Irving's illness. May he have the Lyceum for a fortnight from the 12th June? The 'Queen' and 'Cyrano' always go well. If Irving thinks of what Richard Mansfield has done, he will make a fortune. Asks Irving to respond swiftly if only in ten words. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | In French. C.B. Coquelin played Cyrano in French at the Lyceum from 4th-19th July 1898. Mansfield failed in London 1888 & 1889, but was a success as Cyrano in America. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/20) | ||
| Ref.No: | 653 | ||
| Author: | Corelli, Marie | ||
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| Address: | Mason Croft, Stratford -upon-Avon | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1901, Jan., 2 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Thanks Irving for admirable letter in 'The Morning Post' about Shakespeare's Church. It has had a burden of £700 debt for over two years. Urges Irving to get his friends to make donations. George Alexander says he can't afford anything - 'not even a half sov'. Thinks Toole would give if Irving asked. She invites Irving to her house on 23rd April for Shakespeare Birthday celebration. Happy New Year! | ||
| Published: | |||
| Notes: | Marked "Private". | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/21) | ||
| Ref.No: | 657 | ||
| Author: | Brown, Hannah | ||
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| Address: | Selsdon Park | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1878, Aug., 19 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | She sends love to Trin. She delights in Irving's telegram and is pleased to find her feelings at last recognised. (Postscript) They are all looking forward to Monday. Tbe Baroness is dealing with trains. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Irving was to stay for two weeks at Selsdon Park. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/7) | ||
| Ref.No: | 685 | ||
| Author: | Brown, Hannah | ||
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| Address: | Selsdon | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1878, Nov., 1 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (9 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | They received his letter at dinner... Glad to hear of his pleasant drive. They saw a pleasant notice in the Morning Post and other papers of Irving's lecture read at Social Science. She encloses Mr H's and Mrs Jacobs' letters of which she asks him to take care. May she keep Blackie's verses which have a rough grandeur. What an escape in Irving's accident on leaving Dundee. She hopes to hear how they like Jingle. They feared the Bank business might have affected Irving. The papers compare the Drury Lane Hamlet unfavourably to his. They think of leaving in a fortnight as people are beginning to moan.... | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | P.1-3 written by Hannah Brown, the rest dictated to Baroness Burdett-Coutts. In a paper at the Social Science Congress in Glasgow in October Irving gave his views on a National Theatre. The drafts of the lecture are preserved at the Shakespeare Centre Library and Archive, RL2/9/2. He also gave two readings in aid of those hurt by the failure of the City of Glasgow Bank. The Dundee mishap does not seem to be recorded. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/7) | ||
| Ref.No: | 699 | ||
| Author: | Curzon, Frank | ||
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| Address: | Opera House, Cork | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1891?] Thursday | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Glad to hear Irving is going on well. Benson played and Curzon supplied the comic relief. He went on for the second player in 'Hamlet' on Monday and dried on 'Thoughts black, hands apt'. 'The Guv'nor' had to speak his lines. Hippisley roared with laughter but not the Guv'nor who has no sense of humour. Irving would have laughed. They are having very fair houses. He will write again soon. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Addresses Irving as 'My dear old master'. Touring with Frank Benson's company. On crossed and headed paper 'Mr Frank Curzon's Company in 'Two Roses' by James Albery from the Vaudeville Theatre, London'. 'Two Roses' was first performed at the Vaudeville Theatre in 1870 but this paper must date from a later period perhaps in the 1880s. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/21) | ||
| Ref.No: | 716 | ||
| Author: | Curzon, Frank | ||
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| Address: | Opera House, Southport | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1896?], Jan., 19 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Supposes Irving will have received several letters from "the boys" all saying the same thing. Details how he has dried in several parts. Passed the Dee Oil Co's works on Sunday - old Jolland(?) gave a loud cheer and they all thought how Irving would have joined in. Glad that Irving has been moved into another room. Curzon stayed at home in Chester on Sunday night - hopes that Irving will go there with him. The Jocker(?) and Tripp Edgar all send their love. Tripp Edgar says he must tell Irving that he dried in 'Othello' in Irving's part as the messenger! | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Addresses Irving as 'My dear old master'. On crossed and headed paper 'Mr Frank Curzon's Company in 'Two Roses' by James Albery from the Vaudeville Theatre, London'. 'Two Roses' was first performed at the Vaudeville in June 1870, starring Irving as Digby Grant so the paper possibly from the 1880s may have been kept for Irving. The "another room" might be a reference to Irving's knighthood. Irving played the Messenger in Othello either in Sunderland or Edinburgh, 1856-59. Howard Tripp Edgar, d.1927 was an actor who, like Curzon, turned to management. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/21) | ||
| Ref.No: | 717 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | Lyceum | ||
| Recipient: | Crawfurd, Charles Walter Payne | ||
| Address: | Garrick Club [East Grinstead?] | ||
| Date: | 1883, July, 27 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Thinks the Garrick Club would be very glad to have the very interesting memento and Irving as one of the Committee would be glad to have Crawfurd's permission to submit the matter to them. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | The memento is unidentified. | ||
| Document Holder: | GAR (Reference: In pencil 307. Card file 1.) | ||
| Ref.No: | 711 | ||
| Author: | Byron, Henry James | ||
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| Address: | Westminster Club | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1872, Sept., 30 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Though weary of writing, he expresses real delight in Irving's success at the Lyceum. He would have written to Bateman, but he would have thought it Bunkum. He thought Bateman's daughter [Isabel] would have done well from the first, though he may have spoken abruptly and not in good taste, he is glad to see her praised in 'The Times'. Remembering Irving's career from the first he is charmed and only regrets that the play is not his and that he cannot see it. "Possibly as they say at the Vic 'a Day will come'." | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | The play was 'King Charles I'. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/1/12) | ||
| Ref.No: | 719 | ||
| Author: | Byron, Henry James | ||
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| Address: | Lauriston, 44 Larkhall Rise, Clapham | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1875, March, 29 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Knowles had kept him on tenter-hooks for days about doing something for his final performances, but found it impossible as he had so few people, so Byron could have gone to Irving's dinner. Sometime before Bateman had expressed a vague interest in a modern society play of his, later revived but cancelled by his sudden death. Can Irving give him a hint as to the future? He heard of two other deaths the same day that Bateman's came as a shock. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Knowles may be the manager, John Knowles. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/19) | ||
| Ref.No: | 722 | ||