| Author: | Marbury, Elizabeth | ||
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| Address: | Empire Theatre Building, Broadway & 40th Street, New York | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1897, Dec., 16 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | She has had a long letter from Sardou. He will not be able to finish 'Robespierre' until late spring. He is rehearsing 'Pamela' for Réjane which has been delayed. Miss Marbury will spend early summer with Sardou to ensure every detail of 'Robespierre', costume, scenery, props. She hopes Irving is well and that 'Peter the Great' is a strong attraction. She asks about young de Wolfe who will reach London the first week in January. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/1/36) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2163 | ||
| Author: | Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton | ||
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| Address: | Knebworth, Stevenage | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | [London] | ||
| Date: | [1880?] Tuesday | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He thanks Irving for reserving a box for him for Thursday evening. He will be delighted to sup after the play and discuss business. Tennyson's new play is a sad failure. Though a great poet he will never be a dramatist and only Irving's hand could have retrieved his previous dramatic experiments. (Postscript) Will Irving send the number of the box to 5 Bryanston Square to anticipate his arrival there. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Irving's first Tennyson productions were 'Queen Mary' and 'The Cup' in 1881. 'The Falcon' had been produced at the St James's Theatre on 18th December 1879. Lytton's box was for 'The Merchant of Venice'. Two addresses and "St James's" pencilled on blank p.4. Courtesy of http://www.knebworthhouse.com. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/29) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2170 | ||
| Author: | Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton | ||
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| Address: | 45 Brook St | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1875, April, 15 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (5 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He is going to Sandringham from Monday 19th to Friday and asks Irving to return the copy of his father's play 'Brutus' before 19th. He has little time in England and is busy. If Irving would like to see the other play 'The Captives' he could have it when returning the 'Brutus' until Lytton returns from Sandringham. Mr Bandmann (not a Talma) wrote last year that he would have preferred the chief part in 'The Captives' to that in 'The Rightful Heir'. He presumes from Irving's silence that he will not produce 'Brutus'. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | D.E. Bandmann had created the part of Vyvyan in 'The Rightful Heir' at the Lyceum in 1868. Courtesy of http://www.knebworthhouse.com. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/29) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2168 | ||
| Author: | Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton | ||
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| Address: | Knebworth House, Stevenage | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1884, June, 6 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (5 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He congratulates Irving on the success of the American tour. He asks for the return of the copy of 'The Household Gods' and to explain a too brief telegram sent as he left for Italy. Circumstances relating to the acting copyright require the play to be performed soon if possible. Wilson Barrett who had it through Miss Anderson desired to put it on that year, but Lytton understood Irving would try it out on his return from America, later realising it would be too expensive or protracted a project. He thanks Irving for his reply to the telegram. He is busy in the country but would like to meet Irving. Can he come to Knebworth any Sunday that month or the next? | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | 'Junius Brutus; or, The Household Gods' was eventually performed at the Princess's Theatre in February 1885. The blank back page contains pencil sketches of heads, hats and scenery(?) and perhaps portraits, possibly by Irving. Courtesy of http://www.knebworthhouse.com | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/29) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2183 | ||
| Author: | Osman, William R. “Ossie” | ||
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| Address: | 2 New Cut, Waterloo Road, Lambeth | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1889], [June?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He thanks Irving for a great treat. Irving's Macbeth is the equal of Macready and Kean and far superior to Cobham and Charles Freer, &c. Miss Terry's finished performance was a surprise. He lists his reactions to the scenery and wishes Irving had carried out his idea of the moving wood. He praises the dagger and sleep walking scenes and says he has never been so excited since Macready's benefit night. (Postscript) 61 years before 'The Hut of the Red Mountain[s], or 30 years of a gambler's life' was produced at the Coburg. It had a great run, and with adaptation would seem as new. He has a copy and will recommend it to Irving. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/1/29) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2185 | ||
| Author: | Mathews, Charles James | ||
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| Address: | 16 Half Moon Street | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1873, June, 7 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He wishes to see Irving for an hour to show him a 3 act play. He thinks there is a fine part for Irving. He knows Irving is not an early riser and so does not fear he will appear before 9 in the morning. Any day the next week. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/31) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2195 | ||
| Author: | Mathews, Charles James | ||
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| Address: | Jury's Hotel, Dublin | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1874, April, 10 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He replies to a letter from Irving dated April 1st and received in Glasgow, asking him to dinner, and at first thought a joke. However perhaps Irving would like to come to him for the day instead. It would only mean two nights' travelling, etc. with no time to change clothes. He promises a typical Irish meal and an open carriage. Irving could stay an extra night to see Mathews at the Gaiety, the alternative being Charlotte Saunders at the Theatre Royal, but he may have seen her. | ||
| Published: | L. Irving, p.238-39. | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/1/5) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2197 | ||
| Author: | Martin, Theodore | ||
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| Address: | 31 Onslow Square, SW | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1876, June, 6 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He sends a copy of 'King René's Daughter' and a volume of his 'Essays on the Drama', one of 50 copies. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | The play dates from 1855 and the Essays from 1874. On June 23rd 1876 Helena Martin gave her last public performance in 'King René's Daughter' for Irving's benefit. The name of the play was later changed to 'Iolanthe'. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/31) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2199 | ||
| Author: | Martin, Theodore | ||
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| Address: | 31 Onslow Square, SW | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1883, July, 19 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Lady Martin has been seriously ill for five months, therefore she is unable to see Irving before he sails to America. Many good wishes for success and prosperity, etc. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/31) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2203 | ||
| Author: | Martin, Theodore | ||
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| Address: | 31 Onslow Square, SW | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1889, March, 10 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He is sorry they have not been to 'Macbeth'. He describes Lady Martin's illnesses which have kept her house-bound. Some years before he gave Irving a privately printed 'Essays on the Drama' - will he now accept the second series. Only 50 copies were printed for Martin's friends. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/31) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2205 | ||