| Author: | Lewis, Leopold David | ||
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| Address: | 181 Euston Road | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1880, Dec., 21 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | A thousand thanks for Irving's kind and immediate response to his appeal. He will soon pull together again. God bless Irving , a happy Christmas and prosperous New Year. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | The appeal was almost certainly for money. See also Letters 1896-97. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/28) | ||
| Ref.No: | 1895 | ||
| Author: | Lewis, Leopold David | ||
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| Address: | 181 Euston Road | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1881, June, 16 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He has been working in a more determined way and will hope in a short time to repay Irving's advances. He has written a 4 act drama + 7 tableaux which he read to the Princess's management. It was accepted but Gooch has had to relinquish the management because of sudden paralysis. Chatterton tried to get it on at the Olympic, but it has been let to Michael Gunn(?). He has also written an opera libretto. He has a weekly drama column in the 'Manchester Courier'. He has given up his solicitor's practice to concentrate on literature. Irving has given him £25 but nothing is coming in. He wants to send his son aged 13 back to school. He has to move from his present apartment on 24th June. Could he have another £40 which will make £115 in all. He encloses an IOU for the £40 and will call at the Stage Door for an answer at 7pm the next day. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Lewis's 'The Foundlings' was performed at Sadler's Wells in October 1881. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/28) | ||
| Ref.No: | 1896 | ||
| Author: | Lewis, Leopold David | ||
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| Address: | 46(?) Liverpool St, Euston Road | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1887, July, 21 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Lewis and his wife thank Irving for his generous allowance conveyed by Bram Stoker's letter of the 18th. He quotes Gray to express his thanks: the poem beginning "What is grandeur? What is power?", etc. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/28) | ||
| Ref.No: | 1897 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | 15A, Grafton Street, Bond Street, W | ||
| Recipient: | Parker, Louis Napoleon | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1898, May, 18 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter | ||
| Content Summary: | Parker and Irving had talked about 'Cyrano' but Irving had not thought about it since. Mr Heinemann will be showing Irving a translation from Paris. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Photocopy of letter with typed transcript. Irving decided not to play 'Cyrano' as Coquelin had made such a great success in the part. See Letter 1912, &c. | ||
| Document Holder: | NYPL (Reference: Appleton Collection *T.Mss.2001-065 Box 3) | ||
| Ref.No: | 1913 | ||
| Author: | Parry, Hubert | ||
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| Address: | Royal College of Music, Prince Consort Road, South Kensington, London, S.W. | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1896, Dec., 23 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Irving will remember that he promised the Council of the RCM to act as annual examiner of the Operatic and Dramatic Class and to send a report based on impressions of 'Falstaff' on 11th December at the Lyceum (by Irving's invitation). Though not due until Easter Irving might like to clear the ground with his report. Parry hopes he was favourably impressed. They have to pay more attention to the music than the acting but seek a high standard. He is sorry to hear of Irving's accident. He was prevented from going to 'Richard III' the previous night. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/33) | ||
| Ref.No: | 1915 | ||
| Author: | Parry, Hubert | ||
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| Address: | Royal College of Music, Prince Consort Road, South Kensington, London, S.W. | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1897, Oct., 26 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Has had recently to submit list of proposed gentlemen Annual examiners to RCM Council. At the time he had hoped the Annual Performance might be at the Lyceum so he took the liberty of submitting Irving's name to report on the opera performance. This was passed by the Council and the Prince of Wales as President. Hopes now that Irving will attend the performance probably at the Savoy Theatre on 10th December. Feels reluctant to ask and everyone will understand if it is inconvenient etc. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Note at head 'Yes' HI 27/10/97. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/33) | ||
| Ref.No: | 1917 | ||
| Author: | Parry, Hubert | ||
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| Address: | Royal College of Music, Prince Consort Road, South Kensington, London, S.W. | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1898, Jan., 24 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Thanks Irving for his note. If he is going to look in at the performance next Thursday would he mind taking a note or two and send a few words by way of report to the RCM Council? This need not be about the musical aspect but perhaps about elocution, acting or action which will be all that is required. It is very late in the day to find someone else. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | 'Don Juan' [Don Giovanni] was performed by students of the Royal College of Music at a matinee at the Lyceum on 27th January. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/33) | ||
| Ref.No: | 1918 | ||
| Author: | Lee, Henry | ||
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| Address: | 13 Norris St, St James's | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1890?], Sept., 24 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He thanks Irving for his kind letter - it is so hard as a stranger to get an opportunity. Wyndham is reviving 'Still Waters' and he is trying to get the part of Hawksley which is not yet cast. He has left a card with Stoker asking for admission to see Irving one night but has not heard from him. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Wyndham revived 'Still Waters' in October 1890 but Arthur Elwood played Hawksley. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/28) | ||
| Ref.No: | 1919 | ||
| Author: | Burnand, Francis Cowley | ||
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| Address: | 64, Russell Square, W.C. | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1881, Dec., 29 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4+4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He comments on Irving's performance as Digby Grant (compounded of Robertson, Dickens & Wilkie Collins). Without Irving's performance the play is like a dried haddock. He hates all advertisements except the necessary French lists of theatres. A few managers will do it - for publicity? It is like advertisements for patent medicines, with quotations from Sala and [Clement] Scott in the 'Times' and 'Telegraph' on a par. It tends to "degrade the stage". But here the degradation moves further downwards by the engagement of an ex professional beauty at 80 or 60 gns per week, when there are experienced and talented women, sufficiently good looking, anxious to escape a provincial company or even get an engagement at a major London theatre. This has nothing to do with Irving, but Irving has not spoken out in the interests of the profession. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | At head: best wishes for the New Year. 'Two Roses' was performed from 26th December 1881. The attack on advertising probably refers to the stage debut of Lily Langtry in December 1881 or her subsequent employment by the Bancrofts. Included is a 4 page parody of 'Julius Caesar' between Sneezer and Calphurnia, referring to a sick Burnand invited to dine with Irving | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/19) | ||
| Ref.No: | 1920 | ||
| Author: | Loraine, Henry | ||
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| Address: | 5 Powis Place, Queen Square, W.C. | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1895, June, 2 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He sends a programme for his matinée. He wishes to express his regret that John Coleman had written to Irving asking him to play at Loraine's benefit after he had seen the letter that Bram Stoker sent to Charles Wyndham on the subject. "Save me from my friends." He did not authorise Coleman to write and knew nothing of it till a few days previously. He is delighted with the honour conferred on Irving as every actor must feel reflected glory. He particularly praises Irving's performance and business at the end of the 2nd Act of 'The Merchant of Venice'. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Loraine's benefit was a performance of 'The Merchant of Venice' on 17th October 1895 at the Gaiety at which he played the Duke. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7) | ||
| Ref.No: | 1924 | ||