| Author: | Fiske, Stephen | ||
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| Address: | Manhattan Club, 96 Fifth Avenue [New York] | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1890, July, 17 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He thanks Irving for his kindness to Henry Lee. Fiske only gives letters of introduction with good cause, and Lee is Irving's choice of actor, devoted to his art. Wilson Barrett slunk away that day. His idea of building a popularity by abusing Irving has been a frightful failure. Irving has too many friends and none stauncher than Fiske. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | - | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/1/30) | ||
| Ref.No: | 1416 | ||
| Author: | Fitzgerald, Percy Hetherington | ||
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| Address: | Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall, SW | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1886]. [May], [14?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Like all the world he is looking forward to Irving's appearance at Oxford. Irving used to be pleased with Fitzgerald's dramatic notes so ventures to make more . (1) Barton Booth & Quin - laboured, sudden descent of voice with no regard to sense. (2) Garrick- natural - cites Davies' description. (3) Kemble era with stately mouthing. (4) Macready - stateliness but with colour. (5) Back to nature in present time. Not hinting thar Irving's thoughts may be wrong; his own thoughts will work it out. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Lecture on Sat. 26th June 1886 at New Examination Hall, Oxford on 'Four Great Actors'. See Letter 1433. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/24) | ||
| Ref.No: | 1430 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | 15a, Grafton Street, Bond Street, W | ||
| Recipient: | Fitzgerald, Percy Hetherington | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1887, July, 8 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | It has come to dish mats. "The devil & dish mats" is a good title for a farce. He reciprocates kind researches with another memento - a match-box. Wishes Fitzgerald could come on last night, Saturday week, 16th July. He would find a few friends there on the stage afterwards. Does he know anything of a portrait of Garrick by N. Dance. He bought it the other day, with an interesting inscription from one Taylor that Garrick gave it to him, considering it ... [ large section of page stuck down ] best portrait ever painted. Irving can believe it is the best portrait, as it is a thorough actor's face. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | This may describe an exchange of gifts. 16th July was last night of 'The Merchant of Venice' prior to short provincial tour followed by third visit to America. Nathaniel Dance's portrait drawing of Garrick is in the National Portrait Gallery. | ||
| Document Holder: | GAR (Reference: Fitzgerald, vol. XVI, p.51.) | ||
| Ref.No: | 1434 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | 15a, Grafton Street, Bond Street, W. | ||
| Recipient: | Fitzgerald, Percy Hetherington | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1883, May, 7 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Greetings and thanks for kind letter. He may be interested in seeing their version of 'Robert Macaire' and sends a rough proof. Irving thinks Fitzgerald said that he had a few bits of the Frederic (Lemaitre's) business. Irving never saw that master but everything would be worth considering excepting perhaps the scaling of the boxes and dress circle at the end of the play. He will make Macaire always a ruffian sometimes with the touch of a dandy. Will Fitzgerald come on the first night? | ||
| Published: | Laurence Irving, p 407 (incomplete). | ||
| Notes: | Partial transcript in THM/37/1/22. THM has also a short note on Frédéric Lemaitre in an unidentified hand and a silk programme for the morning performance in aid of the Royal College of Music on Thursday, 14th June 1883 at 3pm. | ||
| Document Holder: | GAR (Reference: Fitzgerald, vol. 3, p 351.) | ||
| Ref.No: | 1435 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | 15a, Grafton Street, Bond Street, W. | ||
| Recipient: | Fitzgerald, Percy Hetherington | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1886, May, 16 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Thanks for kind letter. He means to say what Fitzgerald suggests. Shakespeare told the actors to "hold the mirror up to nature". They have always shown a tendency to backslide from his teaching but have been brought back by Betterton, Garrick and Edmund Kean. Macready was inspired by Kean. Irving will make Kean his example. He is limited to an hour and one day could talk over his struggling thoughts with Fitzgerald. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Irving's lecture in Oxford on 'Four Great Actors'. The reply to Letter 1430. | ||
| Document Holder: | GAR (Reference: Fitzgerald, vol.7, p.386.) | ||
| Ref.No: | 1433 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | Imperial Hotel, Torquay | ||
| Recipient: | Brereton, Austin | ||
| Address: | 13 York Chambers, Adelphi, London, W.C. | ||
| Date: | [1905], April, 17 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He remarks humorously on a 'Sunday Sun' article. Those hastening from the gifted manager's lecture on 'Hamlet' (which no one had ever heard of) is worthy of MPs who used to rush from the House to be in time for Mark Anthony's oration. How do they get into the papers and who is the ass on the 'S.Sun'? No reflection on the Revd Mr Blathwayt. He will be back on Thursday. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | With envelope supplying the year. The lecturer is probably Harry (H.B.) Irving; see Letter 5498. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/14/9/8(2)) | ||
| Ref.No: | 1445 | ||
| Author: | Jefferson, Joseph | ||
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| Address: | Orange Island | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1894, March, 3 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He thanks Irving for his kind remembrance. Irving's gift of a quaint engraving is a mystery to him. He has never seen it before and wonders about its history. The dedication is a 'Choice Italian' and he can only make out Clarke(?) which has Anglo-Saxon overtones. Will Irving explain? Did the artist Eugene Smith call on Irving? During this month Jefferson must say adieu to the land of birds and flowers and don the Dutchman's rags. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Jefferson refers to his most famous role: Rip Van Winkle. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/27) | ||
| Ref.No: | 1470 | ||
| Author: | Fitzgerald, Percy Hetherington | ||
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| Address: | Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall, SW | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1888] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Glad Irving is home again [from 3rd American tour]. Has heard the witches are to be women; a vast gain in 'Macbeth'. Is curious about the Banquet scene. Glad to hear of Telbin's drop scene. He is a beautiful landscape painter and his scenes are like watercolours. When Irving is free he wants to show him the now eight volumes of Irvingiana. Contributions always thankfully received. Fitzgerald has seen Richard Mansfield's Dr. Jekyll. He wishes Irving had done it. Mansfield is too grovelling and earthy. He says Balzac's 'Peau de chagrin' is analagous. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | 'Macbeth' opened on 29th December 1888. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/24) | ||
| Ref.No: | 1457 | ||
| Author: | Fitzgerald, Percy Hetherington | ||
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| Address: | Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall, SW | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1888?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | As 'Macbeth' is 'on the tapis'. Fitzgerald will amuse himself collecting all that might be useful. He has new ideas for the Ghost, the Army and the witches. Augustus Harris has carried the exhibition of numbers on the stage to a ludicrous length so it is no novelty. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/24) | ||
| Ref.No: | 1465 | ||
| Author: | Fitzgerald, Percy Hetherington | ||
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| Address: | Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall, SW | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1883] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Another suggestion for 'Robert Macaire'. Have start of 2nd Act with slow change from early dawn to day. This was beautifully effective in 'The Mastersingers'. There is a fine piece of music for the change which Ball will know about. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Meredith Ball - musical director at Lyceum. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/24) | ||
| Ref.No: | 1466 | ||