| Author: | Warner, Neil | ||
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| Address: | c/o Wm Stannary, Post Office, Alameda, California | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1888, Oct., 20 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | An appeal for help to let Warner make a debut as Othello in England. He gives details of the failure of a company run by Miss Nora Hollis and his financial difficulties. His young wife (a grand-daughter of Chippendale) cannot cope with his four children. If Irving could arrange anything he will arise like a phoenix. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | William Henry Chippendale had acted with Irving who gave him a benefit in the year of his retirement in 1879. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/42) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4266 | ||
| Author: | Whitehead, Arthur Fry | ||
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| Address: | Keinton Rectory, Somerton | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1899, Feb., 28 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | His parishioners have asked him to write about their Church bells. They have three and wish to place two more in the tower. This is impossible without great outside help. Knowing of Irving's former generosity to their Church Restoration Fund they ask his help to start this object. They would be very grateful for help or any special honour as they are now proud to realise he was born in their village. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | The letter is also signed by Uriah Frampton and Frank Barnes, the churchwardens. Irving was born in Keinton Mandeville but from a nonconformist family. A note in his hand at head reads £5.5.0. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/42) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4300 | ||
| Author: | Sutherland, Anne Sutherland-Leveson-Gower | ||
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| Address: | Stafford House | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1883?] Thursday | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Apologies for not being able to attend Irving's Benefit. Only just heard from Mitchell's that Saturday is quite impossible. Just wants him to know her disappointmment. Would there be stalls? | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/39) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4315 | ||
| Author: | Arnold, Augustus Walter | ||
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| Address: | Stratfieldsaye House, Winchfield, Hants | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1883, June, 16 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Arnold offers Irving the use of his Box and seats for his benefit. He praises Irving's Robert [Macaire] as the best he has seen of three actors and his skill in preparing it for one night. The Duke of Wellington would be happy to see Irving at Stratfield Saye at any time. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Arnold was lessor of the Lyceum. The Prince of Wales had suggested that Irving and Toole revived 'Robert Macaire' for a benefit performance in aid of the Royal College of Music on 14th June 1883. It made £1000. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/11) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4424 | ||
| Author: | Bancroft, Squire | ||
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| Address: | - | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1882, April, 15 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | A formal request for Irving to appear at a benefit for James Mortimer. There is a detailed account of how recent benefits have been unsuccessful including the failure of that for the General Theatrical Fund. It would be better to have one act of a well-known play. Would Irving consider doing something he had not been associated with in London - as Alfred Evelyn in 'Money' with Ellen Terry as Clara Douglas? The supporting cast would be exemplary. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Signed by Bancroft, J.L. Toole, Charles Wyndham and Charles Dickens junior. Irving had played Captain Dudley Smooth in Bulwer Lytton's 'Money' in Edinburgh and Manchester but this later request seems to have come to nothing. James Mortimer was a dramatist who had written a play for Wyndham in 1881, but as also the journalist corresponding with Irving in 1876, there was an unidentified dispute between them. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/43) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4448 | ||
| Author: | Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills | ||
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| Address: | Keats House, Tite Street | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1881], [April] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | The Drapers' Company wishes to make a donation and annual subscription to some institution for the support of old actors in need. Could Irving write giving advice on this matter as soon as possible? Best wishes for success the next week. | ||
| Published: | O.Wilde, Letters, 2000, p.109. | ||
| Notes: | Wilde was misinformed about the Drapers' intentions. 'Othello' opened at the Lyceum on 2nd May. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/1/24) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4452 | ||
| Author: | Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills | ||
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| Address: | 16, Tite Street, Chelsea, SW | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1891], [April?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He is pleased that Irving wants to recite something by Wilde on the occasion of Sims Reeves' retirement, but he does not think he can produce anything worthy. Sims Reeves is just a vague name to him, who seems to have stood apart from the development of modern music. | ||
| Published: | O.Wilde, Letters, 2000, p.479. | ||
| Notes: | A farewell concert for Reeves was held in the Albert Hall on 11/5/1891. Irving recited verses written by Walter H. Pollock. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/1/24) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4457 | ||
| Author: | Yates, Edmund Hodgson | ||
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| Address: | Walliscote, Whitchurch, Oxon. | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1888, June, 12 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Agreed that Irving will go there on Tuesday and spend Wednesday with them. His wife is writing to Ellen Terry to this effect. Please read his appeal for Madame Isolte(?) 'moi-meme' and send him something for her. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | The dates may refer to a visit in July. The subject of the appeal is unidentified. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/44) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4502 | ||
| Author: | Yates, Edmund Hodgson | ||
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| Address: | 2, Eaton Gardens, West Brighton | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1889, May, 12 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Will Irving send him that £5 for the Freemason's Girls' School? Also will he arrange with Ellen Terry to come to them on Sunday, 7th July , the day after the Mackenzie dinner or the following Sunday, the 14th? | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Signed EY. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/44) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4507 | ||
| Author: | Yates, Edmund Hodgson | ||
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| Address: | 2, Eaton Gardens, West Brighton | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1889, May, 14 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Thanks for the £5 for the Freemason's Girls' School. He has booked 7th July for Irving and Ellen Terry. He is to see Mackenzie on Friday and will settle the dinner chairmanship then. He is thinking of the Duke of Westminster or Lord Charles Beresford. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | See Letter 4507. The dinner for Morell Mackenzie and his hospital. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/44) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4508 | ||