| Author: | Hill, Jane Dalzell | ||
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| Address: | 3 Morpeth Terrace, Westminster, SW | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1880], Nov., 10 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (7 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | She comments on Edwin Booth as Hamlet. His manner is now subdued and in private he is almost dejected. Some studied effects are almost lost on his audience, with too much gesture and facial expression, his accent too American. Foreigners & Americans should not be encouraged to act Shakespeare. Everyone praised Irving as they left the theatre, and Booth should not have chosen 'Hamlet' for his first appearance - it will not last two weeks. Booth's wife and daughter are nice and devoted to him. Irving and [Frank] Hill will have a fine talk on Sunday - Mr Russell Lowell is coming. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Edwin Booth's 'Hamlet' opened at the Princess's Theatre on 6th November 1880. Mrs Hill addresses Irving as "My dear Fabien" in 1880-81. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/26) | ||
| Ref.No: | 1386 | ||
| Author: | Hill, Jane Dalzell | ||
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| Address: | 3 Morpeth Terrace, Westminster, SW | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1880], [Nov.?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | A detailed criticism of Edwin Booth's 'Richelieu'. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Signed with initials. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/26) | ||
| Ref.No: | 1387 | ||
| Author: | Hill, Jane Dalzell | ||
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| Address: | 3 Morpeth Terrace, SW | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1881], Feb., 28 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (8 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | They went to G[eorge] Lewis' party the night before but Irving was not present. She is looking forward to 'Othello' - will Irving play Iago or Othello first? She has seen Edwin Booth in both. She hopes it is Iago first for Irving and explains why. Booth plays Othello like an elocution master and even his Lear is dry bones. The public is dull and stupid. Will Irving be at Mrs Stewart's lunch on Thursday? If he comes will he bring his little book to fix a Sunday date? Talk it over with Frank. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/26) | ||
| Ref.No: | 1390 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | Lyceum Theatre | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry Brodribb “Harry” | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1897, March, 29 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Pinero is delighted with Harry's prospect that night. At half past eight keep cool and God be with you. Love to Dorothea. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | The first night of A.W. Pinero's 'The Princess and the Butterfly' at the St James's Theatre in which Harry played Edward Oriel. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/1/37) | ||
| Ref.No: | 1398 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | Midland Hotel, Bradford | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry Brodribb “Harry” | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1905], Oct., 10 Tuesday | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | The contract or agreement would be no agreement after the first month or two. It is full of pitfalls and he would not bind himself to anybody for five years. If both don't agree, better to part, & if you do, better a fresh contract every year. Harry is not entering into anything of the sort, and as he says they are all mixed up, he cannot be too careful. Between themselves he hears it took most influential interest to get Mrs Pat's contract carried out after her accident, despite the clauses. The document is impudent in its one-sidedness. There are only 7 good months in America and they could send him anywhere any time - one night stands nor Sundays excepted. It would be good for him to have representatives in America to save worry. He doen't think Harry's lawyer should be Frohman's as no man ever served two masters properly - even such a friend as George Lewis fails at it. God bless Harry. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | A note at head reads: "Copy of mine 9/10/05" with 6 pages of rough notes, some in pencil on the same subject, one on paper from the Midland Hotel, and one embossed 20 Bedford Street, London, W.C., numbered 7 which is part of an earlier draft in another hand, perhaps of a speech given by Irving. The last letter is full of sound advice from Irving's experience. The proposed contract is presumably with Charles Frohman. Mrs Patrick Campbell is reported to have quarrelled with Frohman in New York in 1902. Sir George Lewis was Irving's solicitor. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/1/45) | ||
| Ref.No: | 1402 | ||
| Author: | Filon, Augustin (Pierre Marie Augustin) | ||
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| Address: | Godwin House, St. Augustine's Avenue, S.Croydon | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1897?], July, 11 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Thanks for hospitality and afternoon visit to 'Madame Sans-Gene'. Irving's Napoleon is truly wonderful. As a Frenchman he forgot Irving was speaking English and thought the real Napoleon was before him in his smallness and greatness. Theatrical art can go no further. Praises Ellen Terry above Sarah Bernhardt because of her range and compares Terry with Ristori. Occupied same box as when he saw 'Charles I' 25 years before with his old pupil, the Prince Imperial. Good old Bateman spoke to them with beaming face and gold buttons and was grandiloquent. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Note attached which gives incorrect date of letter as 1872, which is a reference to 'Charles I' mentioned in letter. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/1/12) | ||
| Ref.No: | 1404 | ||
| Author: | Fiske, Stephen | ||
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| Address: | 16 East 28 St. New York City | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1895, Jan., 29 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Many happy returns ; if there is anything Irving desires as a present from America he shall have it. Comments on friends trying to protect Irving from rivalry of Beerbohm Tree. He went to see Tree act to a large but not crowded house. He was warmly welcomed and applauded. He is not in the same class as Irving. Irving is of the grand school, Tree a clever comedian. The main surprise was the excellence of Mrs Tree who did excellent, eery work in 'The Red Lamp'. Tree will make a Kendal success. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | To 'My dear Chief'. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/1/35) | ||
| Ref.No: | 1405 | ||
| Author: | Fitzgerald, Elizabeth | ||
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| Address: | Shalstone Manor, Buckingham | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1888?], Aug., 25 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Thanks Irving for liberal gift for the organ, asked for by Mr Warne, which she is putting up in memory of her beloved son. She is proud that he met Irving at the Garrick and regarded him as a friend. Her son said she should know "our greatest English artist'' as she knows Salvini - two men who are "the glory of the stage" etc. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Mother of Captain Keene Fitzgerald, who died 30/8/1887, the Lady of the Manor at Shalstone, signing herself Eliza. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/24) | ||
| Ref.No: | 1406 | ||
| Author: | Fitzgerald, Percy Hetherington | ||
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| Address: | 37, St.George's Road, Eccleston Square, SW. (Printed 33, Upper Merrion St, Dublin crossed through) | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1877?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Often wished to suggest a remarkable play - charming and poetical - no other than old friend, the Flying Dutchman. Not the hero of Fitzball's vulgar drama but Wagner's beautiful operatic story. Hesitated to suggest because he knows Irving must be overwhelmed with suggestions. Has mentioned the subject to [W.G.] Wills but he hasn't had time yet. May he send original French piece which has spectacle, mystery, poetry, tenderness and love? | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Fitzgerald's 'Vanderdecken', written jointly with W.G. Wills, opened at Lyceum on 8th June, 1878 under Mrs Bateman's management. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/24) | ||
| Ref.No: | 1410 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | 15a, Grafton Street, Bond Street, W | ||
| Recipient: | Fitzgerald, Percy Hetherington | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1879, June, 29 Sunday | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Driving Delaunay, [Mounet] Sully and a few kindred friends to Dorking that day. Would be delighted if Fitzgerald could come too. Leaving Garrick at eleven, back about eight. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | GAR (Reference: Fitzgerald, vol. 1, p.67.) | ||
| Ref.No: | 1414 | ||