| Author: | Merivale, Herman Charles | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | Grand Hôtel du Louvre, Paris. Couchard & Cie | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1882, Sept., 17 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Coming home the next day and staying Tuesday and Wednesday at the Charing-Cross Hotel. Can he meet Irving to discuss anything about the "Bride" [Ravenswood] at home on either day. Send a telegram or post-card to the hotel. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/31) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2402 | ||
| Author: | Merivale, Herman Charles | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | Hazard Side, Eastbourne | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1882, Dec., 15 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | All right -good enough - they were right to trust each other over terms. Merivale was misinformed over what Irving gave [W.G.] Wills and he doesn't want more. As to monuments of blank verse, he doen't think a prologue should weigh in the scale. He knows no more than Irving the worth of the play (£1000 or a farthing?) but was alluding to the worth of the labour. For the £100 he sells all the acting rights of the play, and is at service to alter or re-write. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Terms for 'Ravenswood'. | ||
| Document Holder: | BTC (Reference: 2006/0078 (Box 2)) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2406 | ||
| Author: | Merivale, Herman Charles | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | Barton Lodge, Kingston on Thames | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1879, May, 24 Saturday | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Did Irving ever read 'The Lovers' (Faust) which he sent printed? It is now revised and in four acts and he feels that Irving will not easily find a better original part than 'Lestrange'. Will Irving say when he will be at home, as he has too many visitors at the theatre. Merivale has had an offer for the play which he feels like accepting but he does not like to lose the original Lestrange with such a 'Daisy' on hand as Ellen Terry. Please write. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | This may be 'The Modern Faust', not produced until 1881. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/31) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2395 | ||
| Author: | Merivale, Herman Charles | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | Hazard Side, Eastbourne | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1882, March, 7 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He is hard at work on 'Edgar & Lucy' [Ravenswood], which he thinks will be striking and effective. Illness and trouble have delayed it, and it is not easy to write it for a man who will not write, nor see him in town. He will work on the play only now, and telegraph when it is ready. He wishes success for 'Romeo & Juliet'. (Postscript:) He has made a hit with a novel and probably will write no more plays, but he has unexpectedly another piece which would just suit Ellen Terry. When Irving does see him he will show it. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/31) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2398 | ||
| Author: | Merivale, Herman Charles | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | Hazard Side, Eastbourne | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1883, March, 19 | ||
| Document Type: | Postcard | ||
| Content Summary: | He asks for a printed copy of 'Edgar and Lucy' [Ravenswood]. He won't show it about and only wants it to have by him, as he has nothing but rough drafts. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | BTC (Reference: 2006/0078 (Box 2)) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2421 | ||
| Author: | Pinero, Arthur Wing | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | 63, Hamilton Terrace, N.W. | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1898, April, 13 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | John Davidson, the poet, is about to approach Irving with a plan of a play of which he has written he first act. He is a shy man and Pinero approaches for him. He lists some of Davidson's works including an English version of 'Pour la Couronne'. Pinero saw 'Cyrano de Bergerac' in Paris on Saturday night -it is a fine, beautiful thing but the characters of Cyrano and Roxanne have yet to be acted. Congratulates Irving on the possession of this piece. | ||
| Published: | Collected Letters of Pinero, Minnesota, 1974, p.179-80. | ||
| Notes: | John Davidson, 1857-1909, Scottish poet, dramatist and novelist. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/33) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2412 | ||
| Author: | Merivale, Herman Charles | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | Hazard Side, Upparton, Eastbourne | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1882, Oct., 19 Thursday | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He needs his pay. He waited until 'Much Ado' was successfully mounted but now asks for a little cheque. They had not expressly arranged terms but he is content with a "Wills" basis. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Terms for 'Ravenswood' on a par with those agreed with W.G. Wills for his plays for Irving. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/31) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2403 | ||
| Author: | Merivale, Herman Charles | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | Hazard Side, Eastbourne | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1882, Oct., 27 Friday | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He thanks Irving for the cheque and agrees with his suggestion for payment of the balance. He hopes his telegram did not harrass him, but his friends wonder if letters are always opened. He does not think £500 quite enough for a 5-act tragedy. He thinks Wills received £700 for 'Rienzi' and suggests the same price for the same rights. This leaves a balance of £400. He would like to keep the literary right of eventual publication. For his last blank-verse piece he received £350 for three years ... He hopes Irving may before long read the too much delayed 'Edgar & Lucy' [Ravenswood]. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Irving is quite often accused of not answering letters. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/31) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2404 | ||
| Author: | Merivale, Herman Charles | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | Hazard Side, Eastbourne | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1882, Dec., 13 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Time's up and he's starving. 27th October was to be a month to the second instalment of £250. Will Irving send it? The remaining £150 could come in another month. He asks what he thinks right; and should not ask more than [W.G.] Wills received. Nor should he take less - less too than Miss Litton paid in preparation, and she left him all American and Colonial rights. When will there be room at 'Much Ado'? | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Payment for 'Ravenswood'. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/31) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2405 | ||
| Author: | Merivale, Herman Charles | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | 3 Lower Kings Road, Kingston on Thames | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1886, May, 14 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He read the play carefully the night before. It is practical and the leading motive clean and strong. If Irving will allow him to use the same amount of discretion as he did in 'Fedora' he thinks he can promise what is desired for the lady in a fortnight. She herself has written to him that morning and he is writing to her with the same answer. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | This sees to be a play by A. Delpit, to be adapted for Mrs Brown Potter, see Letter 2427; and it may be the play purchased later that year by Irving, although Irving's connection is not clear.. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/31) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2422 | ||