| Author: | Martin, Helena (Helena Faucit) | ||
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| Address: | 31 Onslow Square SW | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1883, Feb., 6 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | She sends an application from an actor (?) - she had hoped the Actors' Benevolent Fund would give him help. She comments on actors and their means. Many actors and actresses show want of education; amateurs, in this, are their superiors. The Martins' friend Mr (Froude?) has given impressions of 'Much Ado'. Has Irving received her Imogen letter? She has had a long visit from Ruskin. Sir Theodore did not want Ruskin to have a copy of the Imogen letter, so it was a triumph to make a convert of him. She wonders how Irving feels in living in Sicily so long. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Helena Martin wrote a series of papers on Shakespeare's heroines. Sicily refers to the long run of 'Much Ado About Nothing'. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/30) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2277 | ||
| Author: | Martin, Helena (Helena Faucit) | ||
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| Address: | 31 Onslow Square SW | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1889, Dec.(?), 18 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | She asks for a box for the Tuesday matinée. Mrs Thorpe (Kate Saville) and her husband will be with them. She has just been in Worthing for a month and comments on the London atmosphere. She is thinking of Cornwall for the next two months. In London, her birthplace, she coughs night and day. She comments at length on the death of Robert Browning. She knew him from very early girlhood and they always remained friends. She also knew Elizabeth Barrett Browning. A great privilege... | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | For 'The Dead Heart'. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/30) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2279 | ||
| Author: | Martin, Helena (Helena Faucit) | ||
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| Address: | 31 Onslow Square, SW | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1891, Jan., 29 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | She asks for a box for the Saturday matinée of 'Ravenswood'. Can they use the private entrance? She needs to be out of draughts. Everyone tells her they like Paulina best in her last letter [on Hermione ] - did Irving? | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | The Lyceum private entrance in Burleigh Street. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/30) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2281 | ||
| Author: | Martin, Helena (Helena Faucit) | ||
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| Address: | 31, Onslow Square SW | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1893, May, 16 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Could she see 'Becket' either next Thursday or Saturday matinée? London atmosphere is stifling after Torquay - she hopes Irving gets enough fresh air during the day to see him through his evening work. Sir Theodore says he thought Irving's performance of 'Becket' wonderful in so limited a space. Macready once told her what he went through acting 'Coriolanus' at Windsor - it was like giving a miniature representation of the character. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | 'Becket' was performed before Queen Victoria at Windsor on 18th March 1893. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/1/33) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2287 | ||
| Author: | Parkinson, Joseph Charles | ||
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| Address: | 91, Victoria Street, S.W. | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1879, Nov., 23 Sunday | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He praises Irving's Shylock which was a revelation. He saw Phelps, [Charles] Kean, &c. and their representations now seem distorted exaggerations. For the first time Shylock is not a monster but a human spoiled by baleful passion. He also praises the quality of Irving's audience - all in thoughtful appreciation. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/1/20) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2298 | ||
| Author: | Michau, A.Hervé Bizet | ||
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| Address: | 15 Guillaume Terrace, Southampton | ||
| Recipient: | Toole, John Laurence | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1886, Feb., 18 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | They last met at the Southampton Theatre. As an old friend of Paul Bedford he has followed Toole's career with interest and suggests a play for him: a successful French farce 'L'Ours et le Pacha' played by Odry & Brunard which he could get translated. Michau is out of the theatrical season, but keep that dark. He hears that Toole's friend Irving has a goldmine in 'Faust' - well deserved as "he has elevated the stage to the highest standard". He suggests Irving stage 'The Vampire' as done by Charles Kean at the Princess's. He would look the part. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | With the odd French phrase or expression. Toole may have passed the letter to Irving. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/32) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2306 | ||
| Author: | Miller, Emily | ||
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| Address: | Criterion Theatre, Piccadilly | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1887, July, 28 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Now the Jubilee excitement is over she writes to remind Irving of a promise he made at the Mansion House Luncheon to allow her to bring her daughter to the Theatre to be introduced (not with a view to any engagement as she is fixed at the Vaudeville) but simply for the sake of the introduction. Will Irving let her know what day the next week would be convenient, or that Saturday. Her daughter will be anxious awaiting Irving's reply. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/32) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2309 | ||
| Author: | Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald | ||
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| Address: | 17 Red Lion Square | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1888, May, 12 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He has almost finished writing a life of Edmund Kean as a central figure surrounded by leading actors of his time. He discovered a few new facts - has determined who was his father and proved he was not educated at Eton. He has found some unprinted letters, and notes regarding Kean among John Forster's papers. It is a pity Forster did not write his contemplated biography but he would have been harsher on Kean's failings than Molloy can bear to be. He has had a few pages typeset which he sends to Irving. He would be grateful for any information Irving has of one they mutually admire. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | The pages are not present. Irving had a Kean scrapbook. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/32) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2313 | ||
| Author: | Pinero, Arthur Wing | ||
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| Address: | 64, St. John's Wood Road, N.W. | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1888, April, 19 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He thanks Irving for letting him see the letter from Miss Kenney to whom he has written. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Rosa Kenney an aspiring actress, daughter of C.L. Kenney and granddaughter of James Kenney the dramatist. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/33) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2326 | ||
| Author: | Pinero, Arthur Wing | ||
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| Address: | 64, St. John's Wood Road, N.W. | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1889, Dec., 2 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Cannot accept Irving's invitation to supper on 9th. The next day he goes to Ramsgate to finish some work which is dragging in London and has to turn his back on pleasure for some weeks etc. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/33) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2331 | ||