| Author: | Le Sage, John Merry | ||
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| Address: | Beaconsfield PO | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | 15A Grafton Street, Bond St Ldn | ||
| Date: | 1896, May, 29 1.19 | ||
| Document Type: | Telegram | ||
| Content Summary: | Has had too much out of public lately. Too soon to ask again - thanks. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Reply to Letter 6881 suggesting a Fund for tornado sufferers. Irving adds a note - "so you can cable to Mayor St Louis". This cable is Letter 6883. | ||
| Document Holder: | SCL (Reference: RL2/8/143) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6882 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | [London] | ||
| Recipient: | Walbridge, Cyrus P. | ||
| Address: | St Louis, Missouri | ||
| Date: | 1896, May, 29 | ||
| Document Type: | Telegram | ||
| Content Summary: | Deeply distressed to hear of terrible disaster. Please add contribution of one thousand dollars to fund for sufferers with love & sympathy. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Copy. See Letters 6881-82. | ||
| Document Holder: | SCL (Reference: RL2/8/143) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6883 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | Lyceum Theatre | ||
| Recipient: | Not known | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1894?], [Dec.?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | As he wrote, before Irving is unable to offer him anything now. A possible engagement in 'King Arthur' depended on his fulfilling his 3 months' engagement, for Irving had never seen him act to judge suitability for a permanent appointment. When he could not carry out his contract and at 48 hours notice Irving had to find a substitute the engagement ended. With no desire to dwell on the circumstances of that collapse Irving thinks he should realise that the £100 he gave him was voluntarily given in sympathy with his miserable condition at the time. Remember that Irving also voluntarily paid expenses for his journey to the Lyceum and he also received £ [ ] for rehearsals preparatory to the autumn tour. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | A draft in Irving's hand. The first page is crossed through, with a replacement text at end: "Never any question between us but of preliminary engagement for 3 months - which you were unable to carry out". The actor is not yet identified. A transcript, probably wrongly ascribed to Bram Stoker is at THM/37/1/35. | ||
| Document Holder: | SCL (Reference: RL2/8/348) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6886 | ||
| Author: | Furniss, Harry | ||
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| Address: | 23, St. Edmund's Terrace, Regent's Park, N.W. | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1894, April, 12 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | It will give him great pleasure to 'support' Irving on Thursday, May 31st. (With a wonderful drawing of a small, fattish Furniss trying to prop up a tall, sloping Irving.) | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | The dinner of the Royal General Theatrical Fund. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/24) | ||
| Ref.No: | 1621 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | Lyceum Theatre | ||
| Recipient: | Not known | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1886, March, 26 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Drawing attention to the purposes of the Dramatic and Musical Sick Fund (Benevolent Branch) for the Annual Dinner at Willis's Rooms on Monday evening 19th April, Irving in the chair. The deserving Fund helps those in lower walks of theatrical and musical life. Irving issues invitation and will acknowledge any sum contributed. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | A printed letter with space for name of addressee, and facsimile signature of Irving. For the version with printed signature see Letter 7018. | ||
| Document Holder: | SCL (Reference: RL2/30/2) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6904 | ||
| Author: | Hare, John | ||
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| Address: | Garrick Theatre, Charing Cross | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | [London] | ||
| Date: | 1892, March, 2 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He had intended to support Irving the next afternoon when he presided at the Actors' Association but because of unexpected arrangements for his son's start for Camshatca(?) [Kamchatka] he cannot do so. Please convey his regrets - as he sympathises completely with the movement he is doubly regretful. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Irving presided at the first AGM of the Actors' Association, founded following a meeting in Manchester in February 1891. | ||
| Document Holder: | SCL (Reference: RL2/9/64) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6909 | ||
| Author: | Redfern, William Beales | ||
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| Address: | Cambridge | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | Lyceum Theatre, Ldn | ||
| Date: | 1892, March, 3 11.44 | ||
| Document Type: | Telegram | ||
| Content Summary: | Would gladly have attended but notice received that morning too late. Best wishes for continued success of Association. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Irving presided at the first AGM of the Actors' Association on 3rd March. Redfern's name is transcribed as Redfarn. | ||
| Document Holder: | SCL (Reference: RL2/9/64) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6910 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | Royal Lyceum Theatre, Starnd | ||
| Recipient: | Actors' Benevolent Fund | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1882, May, 4 | ||
| Document Type: | Misc.Document (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | They hereby undertake each to subscribe £100 annually while they are in management in London to form and support the Actors' Benevolent Fund subject to continuous approval of the scheme and its work. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Signed first by Irving, and by other managers Charles Wyndham, Alex Henderson, Wilson Barrett, John Clayton, Squire Bancroft, Hare & Kendal, & J.L. Toole. | ||
| Document Holder: | SCL (Reference: RL2/30/4) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6913 | ||
| Author: | Wallett, William Frederick | ||
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| Address: | The Cottage, Beeston, Notts. | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | [Nottingham?] | ||
| Date: | 1888, Nov., 8 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | If Irving has a moment he would like a word with him and the pleasure of seeing him again after some years. He thanks Irving for his liberal contribution to the "Wallett Fund" and is admiring friend and grateful servant "Ye Jester". | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Wallett, a clown, was sometimes known as "the Queen's Jester". | ||
| Document Holder: | SCL (Reference: RL2/55/27) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6927 | ||
| Author: | Fish | ||
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| Address: | Brooklyn, L.I. (184, South Oxford St) | ||
| Recipient: | Lyceum Company | ||
| Address: | c/o Mr Wallace MacDonald, Stapleton, Staten Island | ||
| Date: | 1883, Nov., 21 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Acknowledgment even at late date of donation for Mariners' Family Asylum (Home for Aged Widows of Seamen) of $135 proceeds of entertainment on board City of Rome. She explains delay, describes the charity and says she would be happy to meet the company. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | The Company gave a concert on board for the Liverpool Seamen's Orphanage which raised £53 - the proceeds may have been divided between the two charities. | ||
| Document Holder: | SCL (Reference: RL2/48/81) | ||
| Ref.No: | 6986 | ||