| Author: | Merivale, Herman Charles | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | Heatherdene, Wimbledon, SW | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1888, April, 28 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He welcomes Irving back from America in spirit. Sunday, 13th May is his 10th, copper, wedding anniversary and they are celebrating with lunch at 2 o'clock in their little country box. Is Irving free? He was one of the few friends who supped with his wife during their brief engagement. He will send particulars of trains but assumes Irving will drive down. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/31) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2429 | ||
| Author: | Merivale, Herman Charles | ||
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| Address: | Heatherdene, Wimbledon, SW | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1888, May, 13 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He hopes Irving will come that day. He is glad he remembers King's Cross though it seems more than 10 years ago. Irving has had an active life, Merivale's shell-like, but with great and constant happiness. He still hates publicity. He comments at length on Johnnie Toole in his play 'The Don' - playing what he is - a gentleman without make-up. Merivale never saw him play better. He wished Irving in 'Ravenswood' and Toole in 'The Don' could have run in tandem - a unique distinction. Merivale's "child chum" Ellen Terry may come on Sunday. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/31) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2430 | ||
| Author: | Merivale, Herman Charles | ||
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| Address: | 3, Lower King's Road, Kingston on Thames | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1889, May, 3 | ||
| Document Type: | Postcard | ||
| Content Summary: | He asks for a box for the week after next for 'Macbeth'. When they last saw it in Paris it was mystically called "Muck-a-bet". | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/31) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2432 | ||
| Author: | Merivale, Herman Charles | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | 3, Lower King's Road, Kingston on Thames | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1889, May, 19 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Great praise for Irving's Macbeth. It is the finest interpretation of Shakespeare he has seen by Irving and Ellen Terry and thoroughly intellectual. So wonderful a study of guilt one felt sympathy for the Macbeths. Merivale saw Macready and Mrs Warner, and Irving when he was undeveloped, but this is the finest. Merivale usually avoids writing about the theatre, but wants to say something when he has seen the performance again. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/31) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2433 | ||
| Author: | Merivale, Herman Charles | ||
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| Address: | Cockwood, Claygate, Surrey | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1889, July, 28 | ||
| Document Type: | Postcard (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He is asking his publishers to send Irving 'The White Pilgrim'. He wishes he could have a matinée of it at T.R.L. [the Lyceum]. 'The White Pilgrim', a lovely woman in idea, has always been done by a man, except on the first night 15 years before when the Pilgrim was drunk. It is interesting to learn from the 'Era' that Irving was in Scotland the day before - good travelling even for Mephisto! | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Merivale's 'The White Pilgrim; or, Earl Olaf's Vow' was performed at the Court Theatre in February 1874. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/31) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2434 | ||
| Author: | Merivale, Herman Charles | ||
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| Address: | Cockwood, Claygate, Surrey | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1889, Nov., 11 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He has fallen in love with Irving's acting since 'Macbeth' and wanted to see 'The Dead Heart' but too late. He asks Irving to condescend like the great John Coleman to answer a letter for once. He wants him to look at 'Edgar & Lucy' [Ravenswood] again. Their agreement ends in 1890 so he will publish it if they cannot agree on acting rights. He has gout and his wife's mother has died but he can have a chat and chop at any time. He notes Irving is to give Toole a banquet, but after one to Pears' Soap it seems absurd. He suggests a burlesque on 'The Dead Heart' and complains that Frank Burnand appropriated his idea for 'Punch' without answering, whilst Toole seriously stated his inability to stage one. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/31) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2435 | ||
| Author: | Plummer, John | ||
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| Address: | 'Walla', Pyrmont Bridge Road, Sydney, New South Wales | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1881, July, !4 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Remembers seeing Irving in the little dressing room of the Vaudeville when Irving played Digby Grant in 'Two Roses' and he had pleasant chats with George Honey. He anticipated Irving's success in best English comedy and detected in occasional flashes of power and deep feeling Irving's potential in tragedy. Glad his prediction is confirmed. He is well settled in Australia but misses familiar theatrical and journalistic faces. His son is in Fiji. Suggests Irving tours Australia; he would make a great deal of money. | ||
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| Notes: | 'Two Roses' Vaudeville 04/06/1870. Plummer is in the Dictionary of Australian Biography. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/34) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2438 | ||
| Author: | Pollock, Frederick | ||
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| Address: | 48, Great Cumberland Place, London, W. (Woodtown, Horrabridge, S. Devon printed) | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1885, Oct., 25 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He has been asked to give a lecture on swords to the Eton boys on next Saturday, 31st. Messrs Wilkinson & Son of Pall Mall have offered to send specimens from their collection. He was shown a sword belonging to Irving and formerly to Garrick and would like to borrow a fine specimen with interesting associations. No risk of harm though he is asking considerable favour. Will Irving answer by Wednesday evening as the Wilkinson consignment will be dispatched Thursday? | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/34) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2445 | ||
| Author: | Pollock, Frederick | ||
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| Address: | 48, Great Cumberland Place, London, W | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1884 [i.e. 1885], Nov., 5 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Thanks Irving for the swords of three generations of English drama. The Eton boys appreciated them very much. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | See Letter 2445. Date wrongly written as 1884. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/34) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2446 | ||
| Author: | Pollock, Frederick | ||
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| Address: | 48, Great Cumberland Place, London, W | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1894, April, 1 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Welcome back to England. Whilst Irving went West he went East lecturing young Bengali lawyers in Calcutta. He wishes Rajput city life and a native court could be put on stage. He saw 'The Merchant of Venice' played by Mrs. Brown Potter and her company in Calcutta. They did their best and Kyrle Bellew's Shylock flattered Irving's. There were blood curdling dramas to be seen at the native theatre but he did not go. The players remind him of a quotation from 'Hamlet' [unspecified] for which he suggests a variant reading supported by the NED which has just reached 'E'. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | NED; the New or Oxford English Dictionary. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/34) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2447 | ||