| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool | ||
| Recipient: | Scott, Clement William | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1894, Oct., 7 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He wishes Scott the happiest returns of the day before, which Toole tells him of - Irving is ahead of Scott - & they will see if the four of them cannot gather the next Shrove Tuesday. Yardley seems to know more of Alfred Thompson than anybody in London. Has Scott heard from him - Irving thinks he has a subscription in hand hoping to get a few hundred. What a noble little fund theirs is - Scott could not have helped a better cause. Poor Alfred Thompson - a very sad story. (Postscript:) Just got there in a desperate fag - not a lovely Sunday. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Alfred Thompson had earlier worked with Irving; he died in 1895. | ||
| Document Holder: | HUL | ||
| Ref.No: | 4863 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | Lyceum Theatre | ||
| Recipient: | Scott, Clement William | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1894, April, 13 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He has accepted the invitation of the Director of the Royal General Theatrical Fund to take the chair at the Forty Ninth Annual Dinner at the Hotel Metropole on Thursday May 31st and asks for Scott's presence and support as Steward. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Written by a secretary and signed by Irving. With a note by Scott: "I shall be delighted to be a Steward. C.S." | ||
| Document Holder: | HUL | ||
| Ref.No: | 4869 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | Lyceum Theatre | ||
| Recipient: | Scott, Clement William | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1892, March, 17 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He was sorry to hear so sorry an account of the fair lady of Sefton(?) and was glad that the wisdom of the sapient(?) he drew the cheque for £10 only. Sefton seems so importunate about getting £20 that he assumes all a little suspicious. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | The lady is so far unidentified. | ||
| Document Holder: | HUL | ||
| Ref.No: | 4861 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | Lyceum Theatre | ||
| Recipient: | Scott, Clement William | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1896, Dec., 4 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Irving sent the cheque in their joint names and had a letter, similar to that enclosed, that the £90 would be less useful than the 'benefit' was in practice, to which he replied that he could not undertake the organisation of such a thing. Wyndham also has had many letters and pleas. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | HUL | ||
| Ref.No: | 4879 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | 15A, Grafton Street, Bond Street, W. | ||
| Recipient: | Scott, Clement William | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1896, May, 30 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Greetings. He had hoped to call but has too many things to do. He is off to Liverpool as soon as possible. Scott must not associate Irving with Hawkins in this venture. At Hawkins' wish Irving helped him to get the magazine again and since then had no more to do with it than when Scott was editor. Such an attack is not in his line. He never deserts old friends. He will write to H[awkins?] on the subject for he can hardly credit that he trades on Irving's name. Can anything be done by their Fund for Miss Fanny Enson? It seems a sad case. Hearty thanks for 'Bells and Becket' which looks an impressive volume. God bless Scott. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Frederick W. Hawkins presumably took over 'The Theatre' when Scott sold it. Fanny Enson died in 1897. Scott's collection of reviews of first nights 'From "The Bells" to "King Arthur" ' was published in 1896. | ||
| Document Holder: | HUL | ||
| Ref.No: | 4873 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool | ||
| Recipient: | Scott, Clement William | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1896, June, 7 Sunday | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He does not think that & will not give Scott the other part of his [Hawkins' ?] letter - which would answer no good purpose. Enough that H- denies he has ever associated Irving's name in any way with the magazine, and Irving did not think he would, whatever his eccentricities. Irving has always found him straight. He is indignant at something Scott once said of him, etc. Irving does not think this worth bothering about. He has given up that sort of thing long ago and is callous to everything not coming from a friend. Scott did not reply about Miss Enson and that morning Irving had a piteous letter from Louisa Moore - who he expects has been helped a good deal. Just off to Manchester. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | See Letter 4873 for this dispute about 'The Theatre'. It indicates Irving's skill in dealing with trouble stirred up by Scott. | ||
| Document Holder: | HUL | ||
| Ref.No: | 4874 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | Lyceum Theatre | ||
| Recipient: | Scott, Clement William | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1896?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He is sure the case is a sad one but he has just had the same sort of letter from the same lady. Ellen Terry has also often assisted her and says she is an impossible person and most difficult to shake off. If Scott will say that the three of them (giving names) give this money it will relieve him as he intends to excuse himself. (Postscript:) He will be anxious to know the report of Scott's friend into the true state of affairs. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | This might be the same woman referred to in Letter 4879. | ||
| Document Holder: | HUL | ||
| Ref.No: | 4880 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | 15A, Grafton Street, Bond Street, W. | ||
| Recipient: | Scott, Clement William | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1896, Dec., 24 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Christmas and New Year good wishes. It is too bad of the writer of that drunken effusion to bother Scott on such a subject and in such a way. Don't mind him - anonymous writers are all swine. As to Ellen Terry and Lady Anne - she did play it for Toole's Benefit. Irving knows as he was the Richard. He hopes Scott will come in one day soon. He knows when his work is over. Love to both. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Written mainly by Louis Austin with last 3 sentences in Irving's hand. The play referred to is 'Richard III'. | ||
| Document Holder: | HUL | ||
| Ref.No: | 4881 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | Lyceum Theatre | ||
| Recipient: | Scott, Clement William | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1897, March, 6 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | It is too bad Scott should have all the trouble of the cross letters but Irving knows it is "blessed trouble" to him. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | HUL | ||
| Ref.No: | 4885 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | Lyceum Theatre | ||
| Recipient: | Scott, Clement William | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1897, March, 19 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | This is a sad business. Irving thinks they might lend a helping hand. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Scott adds the note: "Fernoy(?) Fire Fund - Burnt out Actors". | ||
| Document Holder: | HUL | ||
| Ref.No: | 4886 | ||