| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | - | ||
| Recipient: | Soulsby, William Jameson | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1883], [March] | ||
| Document Type: | Telegram | ||
| Content Summary: | Regrets unable to accept Lord Mayor's invitation to Dames of the City of London General Pension Society on 14th inst as he has earlier engagement. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Draft telegram to the Secretary of the Lord Mayor of London. With note that Acd 24(?)/3/83. | ||
| Document Holder: | SCL (Reference: RL2/6/180) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6200 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | 15A, Grafton Street, Bond Street, W. | ||
| Recipient: | Stoker, Bram (Abraham) | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1887], [Feb.] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He thinks Stoker must be working hard after the Shakespearian wiseacres. Find out as soon as possible the amount cleared by the Birkbeck. Irving will pay for the tickets he had & for the band & programmes - he can't know if there is anything else. What do Messrs Nathan Beurman(?) matter. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | On 23rd February Irving read 'Hamlet' at the Birkbeck Hall to raise money for the Birkbeck Institute. The final reference might be to Nathan & Co., the costumiers or to the "wiseacres". | ||
| Document Holder: | SCL (Reference: RL2/6/118) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6255 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | 15A, Grafton Street, Bond Street, W. | ||
| Recipient: | Stoker, Bram (Abraham) | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1886?], [Jan.?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | The whole of their elaborate ration has been burnt and he has had to go over the pound again. Please elaborate the enclosed, keeping his order and adding what he has forgotten. The 3 heads are: Support received by the fund; benefits the fund has conferred; the rest of its administration. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Irving was a smoker. Stoker often helped prepare Irving's speeches : this might be for the AGM of the Actors' Benevolent Fund, held at the Lyceum on 8th January 1886, and on 14th January 1887. | ||
| Document Holder: | SCL (Reference: RL2/6/100) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6320 | ||
| Author: | Austin, Louis Frederick | ||
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| Address: | Grafton Street | ||
| Recipient: | Stoker, Bram (Abraham) | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1883], Nov., 28 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4+3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He has daily expected money in vain. He lists sums due including the £8 for James Bennett and Wheeler's month's wages, and £2/2- subscription to Manchester Arts Club. Edwards' solicitor writes that money for the advert in the restaurant is due. Austin must have money in advance. There is also £5 for the boys' railway expenses home on December 18. He now wants £33 and if does not hear will have to telegraph. (Postscript:) Brereton tells him that the 'Standard' statements are all lies. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Enclosing a 3p. list of bills and private payments due, also requesting all the New York papers including 'The Spirit of the Times'. Wheeler, the gardener at Irving's house at Brook Green was discharged, but money was required to pay him. The restaurant was connected with the Savoy. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/1/23) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6346 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | 15A, Grafton Street, Bond Street, W. | ||
| Recipient: | Richards, J.Wall | ||
| Address: | Harborne & Edgbaston Institute, near Birmingham | ||
| Date: | 1878, May, 17 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Has had infected finger or would have replied before. He appreciates the compliment paid him, and will be pleased to lay the foundation stone for the Harborne & Edgbaston Institute. The project should thrive with a similar spirit to that which has made the Perry Barr Institute a successful educational organisation. He cannot come before the end of July when the Lyceum season closes, but will fix the time as soon as possible. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | With envelope without address. The stone was laid on 12th August 1878. | ||
| Document Holder: | P | ||
| Ref.No: | 6375 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | [Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood] | ||
| Recipient: | Stoker, Bram (Abraham) | ||
| Address: | [Lyceum Theatre] | ||
| Date: | [1899], May, 22 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | This is not fair (see X) Public should be told he will not preside on Thursday or disappointment will fall on his head at the meeting & it will seem he has been compelled by illness to break another public engagement. All well. (At head:) Should like telegram on Wednesday Queen's Birthday - respectful duty &c. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | With notes by Stoker that done 23.5/99 and the same on his own part. Queen Victoria was 80 on 24th May. The cutting referred to is not present. The likely envelope is at RL2/8/483. | ||
| Document Holder: | SCL (Reference: RL2/6/239) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6409 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | [London] | ||
| Recipient: | Not known | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1900], [June], [20] | ||
| Document Type: | Misc.Document (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | The 'Dook' would have a word to say about the introduction of a gag concerning the Boer War into Dr Conan Doyle's little play of 'Waterloo'. No gag has been introduced & your visitor forgets that Dr Conan Doyle's play was written long ago, & that the Boer War alluded to was the war of 1881. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Dated 20/6/00. A cutting RL2/6/247a about the Canadian matinee at Drury Lane accuses Irving of introducing a "reference" to the Boer War. This presumably is a draft reply to the editor, almost certainly of 'The Times'. See Letter 2816. | ||
| Document Holder: | SCL (Reference: RL2/6/246) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6416 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | Lyceum Theatre | ||
| Recipient: | Stoker, Bram (Abraham) | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1902, June, 12 | ||
| Document Type: | Misc.Document (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Mr & Mrs Bram Stoker & Mr N. Thornley Stoker are invited to be on stage at the Lyceum after the play on Thursday evening July 3, 1902 at 11.45. Entrance by the Private door in Burleigh Street. RSVP. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | A printed invitation for the Stokers and their son to the reception for about 800 people in honour of the Colonial representatives to the Coronation of Edward VII. | ||
| Document Holder: | SCL (Reference: RL2/6/249) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6418 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | - | ||
| Recipient: | Stoker, Bram (Abraham) | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1897], [June], [12] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | A very few words in reply to vote of thanks on Monday. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | A request, unsigned, and dated by Stoker. On Monday 14th June 1897 Irving unveiled a statue to Sarah Siddons on Paddington Green, London. | ||
| Document Holder: | SCL (Reference: RL2/6/203) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6422 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | Royal Bath Hotel, Bournemouth | ||
| Recipient: | Stoker, Bram (Abraham) | ||
| Address: | c/o Sir Henry Irving, 20 Bedford St, Covent Garden, London, W.C. | ||
| Date: | [1904], Dec., 30 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Cheque for Stoker by return with all thanks. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | With note by Stoker that his own cheque for £100 sent to King Edward Hospital Fund 30/12/04. Irving had agreed in 1897 to subscribe annually to the Fund. | ||
| Document Holder: | SCL (Reference: RL2/6/258) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6463 | ||