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Author: Churchill, Jennie (Jeanette)
Address: -
Recipient: Irving, Henry
Address: -
Date: [1896], [June], [3] Wednesday
Document Type: Letter (3 p.)
Content Summary: Great thanks for loan of Lyceum for the concert. May she let him know which of the two dates offered, the next day?
Published: -
Notes: See Letter 379.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/20)
Ref.No: 394    
Author: Churchill, Jennie (Jeanette)
Address: Oakley (?) Court, Windsor
Recipient: Irving, Henry
Address: -
Date: [1896], [June], [4] Thursday
Document Type: Letter (3 p.)
Content Summary: Sorry to bother Irving again. Suggests that the concert could be Tuesday 21st July as there are many things happening in the second week of July. Could Irving write or wire if this is possible? Her apologies for inconvenience.
Published: -
Notes: See Letters 379 & 394.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/20)
Ref.No: 395    
Author: Clarke, Edward George
Address: 37, Russell Square
Recipient: Irving, Henry
Address: -
Date: 1888, May, 30 
Document Type: Letter (3 p.)
Content Summary: As the Lyceum is closed for Saturday evenings in June would Irving like to come to the Newspaper Press Fund Dinner on 9th June at which Clarke is to preside. If Irving will respond to the toast for 'Visitors' it will be a great honour. He had to return the seats sent for Wednesday as he was in Devonshire. Thanks Irving for the Scotch whiskey sent as he embarked for the States.
Published: -
Notes:
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/20)
Ref.No: 410    
Author: Buckstone, John Baldwin
Address: Theatre Royal, Haymarket
Recipient: Irving, Henry
Address: -
Date: 1876, March, 14 
Document Type: Letter
Content Summary: He asks Irving to play Joseph Surface in 'The School for Scandal' for Buckstone's benefit to celebrate 50 years on stage, to be held at Drury Lane on Wedesday 10th May 1876 matinée. He is asking Phelps, Sims Reeves, Helen Faucit and many others.
Published: -
Notes: The matinée actually took place on Thursday 8th June, with Irving playing Joseph Surface.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/18)
Ref.No: 464    
Author: Coleman, John
Address: 21b, Soho Square, W
Recipient: Irving, Henry
Address: -
Date: 1882, April, 21 
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: A plaintive begging letter asking Irving for £100 in order to avert a scandal for Coleman. He is being forced to close down the Olympic Theatre and is in 'a sea of trouble'.
Published: -
Notes: Marked 'Private - in the confidence of honour.'
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/20)
Ref.No: 481    
Author: Boucicault, Dion
Address: 15 Elm Tree Road, St John's Wood
Recipient: Irving, Henry
Address: -
Date: [1882], July, 9 Sunday
Document Type: Letter (3 p.)
Content Summary: Irving's Fund is started. He can put Boucicault down for a like sum every July. Hare & Kendal have offered him the St James' for a dramatic seance and he proposes one Wednesday afternoon at the end of the month to meet the profession and those seriously interested to describe and illustrate the Art of Acting, its principles and how it may be studied practically beyond elocution and declamation. Admission by invitation only. He asks Irving's help and advice. If it is a success he could give a second public one to benefit the Fund. He will try to find Irving the next day.
Published: -
Notes: The Actors' Benevolent Fund founded in 1882. Boucicault finally gave his lecture at the Lyceum on 26th July.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/1/32)
Ref.No: 493    
Author: Irving, Henry
Address: 5 Linden Grove
Recipient: Brodribb, Samuel
Address: -
Date: 1871, April, 26 Monday
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: He is again in the old quarters until the June quarter day - it is very small but something suitable is difficult to find. Dr O'Callaghan has returned finally to England on a pension of £900 per year. Flo[rence] is well and happy and delighted to have him back and seems to have taken a new view of everything. She is an altered woman and devoted to the boy who is fine. The "benefit" was a big success. He sends 3 papers and a number of 'London Society' with something about him in connection with Dickens, written by Edmund Yates, and he would like it cut and pasted. Barham (?) has his divorce. He has mislaid his father's last letter and asks him to repeat questions. (P.S.) He encloses a p.o.v. for £2.
Published: L. Irving, p.186 (in part, with wrong date).
Notes: Surgeon General Daniel O'Callaghan was his wife's father. The benefit was probably that on (25th?) March 1871 described by Brereton, p.106. With a typewritten transcript in THM/37/1/11 wrongly assigned to September.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/3)
Ref.No: 523    
Author: Brown, Hannah
Address: S- St [Stratton Street]
Recipient: Irving, Henry
Address: -
Date: 1877, Oct., 1 
Document Type: Letter (8 p.)
Content Summary: She does not know how to thank him. How strange he should go to Hackness which belonged to a part of Mrs Malcolm's family. She knows the case of the Dramatic College and appreciates Irving's good advice and generous conduct to it. He was better to rest than to come to London. He will find spirits in Glasgow - a suitable place for Louis XI, which for all its faults she likes. He will receive a letter on Monday at York rather than on Sunday at Scarborough, where she had much fun once. She hopes he does not mind his letters read to friends.
Published: -
Notes: Dictated to Baroness Burdett-Coutt. Half of p.5-6 torn away and missing. The Royal Dramatic College was an ultimately unsuccessful charitable institution to provide a retirement home for actors.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/7)
Ref.No: 594    
Author: Coquelin, Ernest Alexandre Honoré
Address: 6 Rue Arsène Houssaye (Etoile), Paris
Recipient: Irving, Henry
Address: -
Date: 1900, Oct., 17 
Document Type: Letter (3 p.)
Content Summary: Coquelin and his brother have established a lottery of 1,600,000 one franc tickets to aid French actors re pensions. Will Irving and other English actors subscribe? His friend Mrs. Beit will contact Irving. His brother is in New York with Sarah (Bernhardt?)
Published: -
Notes:
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/20)
Ref.No: 651    
Author: Coquelin, Ernest Alexandre Honoré
Address: Paris
Recipient: Irving, Henry
Address: -
Date: 1901, Feb., 1 
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: The lottery draw is on 31st May. He will send list of winning numbers. There are still tickets to sell. Prize of 1000,000 francs. His thanks and best wishes
Published: -
Notes: See Letter No.651.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/20)
Ref.No: 652    
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