| Author: | Calmour, Alfred Cecil | ||
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| Address: | 37 Sydney Street, S.W. | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | [London] | ||
| Date: | [1880], [June?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He has given Irving's note to [W.G.] Wills. Mr Wills has to write and touch up a scene for Francesca in 'Rienzi'. If the proofs are not ready for a week or so, send to Calmour, but if they are now ready Mr Wills can take them to France with him. Wills' address until the next week: 6 Clairville Gdns, Old Brompton Rd, S.W. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Calmour acted as secretary to Wills. | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 7578 | ||
| Author: | Calmour, Alfred Cecil | ||
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| Address: | 37 Sydney Street, Fulham Road, S.W. | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | [London] | ||
| Date: | [1881], [March], [14?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Irving had sent him a seat for 'The Corsican Brothers' and he asks to see 'The Cup' as there are many reliable good accounts specially of Irving acting with Miss Terry. His friend Miss Webling had had drawings of them published. [W.G.] Wills thought the play fine and dramatic. Calmour is writing a blank verse play on Cromwell for Charles Dillon, treating the character differently from Mr Wills and making him hero as Colonel Richards did. He would like Irving to read the finished play. Any seat would do. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Stoker's note: 1 stall 15/3/81. Calmour acted as secretary to Wills to whose 'Charles I' he refers. The Cromwell play may be 'Law, not Justice', 1882. | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 7579 | ||
| Author: | Calmour, Alfred Cecil | ||
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| Address: | 37 Sydney Street, Fulham Road, S.W. | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | [London] | ||
| Date: | [1887], [Feb.], [13?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He is producing a new 3-act play at the Vaudeville on the morning of Tuesday 8th March. Charles Glenney has heard the play and promised to act a principal part if Irving gives permission. It is vital for Calmour to get a good cast and this actor as he risks what Mr [W.G.] Wills thinks a good play and his little store of money. Please reply soon. Wills has gone to Brighton for a week. He was trying to calculate how much money he had drawn on account of 'Faust' with not many more weeks to come. He also wanted to know if Irving had corrected proof of 'Faust'. Calmour hopes business is still good. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Note: Yes 14/2/87. Calmour acted as secretary to W.G. Wills who was always short of money. Calmour's play may be 'Beau Blandish the Rake', privately printed in 1887. | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 7580 | ||
| Author: | Coquelin, Constant Benôit | ||
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| Address: | Théatre de la Porte St Martin [Paris] | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1898?], [Jan.?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He begs Irving to send someone to see 'Cyrano' which is a masterpiece he could adapt brilliantly. Sent in friendship with best wishes for '98. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | In French. Rostand's 'Cyrano de Bergerac', starring Coquelin opened in Paris on 28th December 1897. Coquelin subsequently performed the role at the Lyceum, and although Irving bought the rights, he decided not to attempt the role. | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 7599 | ||
| Author: | Coquelin, Constant Benôit | ||
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| Address: | Théatre de la Porte St Martin [Paris] | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1898?], [Feb.?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | 'Cyrano de Bergerac' is published and can be found in London, where the brochure is selling well. He suggests Laurence Irving as a translator. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | In French. Probably a reply to Irving's response to Letter 7559. | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 7600 | ||
| Author: | Craigie, Pearl Mary Teresa | ||
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| Address: | The Waldorf, Fifth Avenue and 33d St, New York | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | [New Orleans?] | ||
| Date: | 189[6], [Jan.?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter | ||
| Content Summary: | ... She would like to hear from Stoker as she would prefer suggestions about fees should come through him from Irving. She hopes to sail home leaving New York on the Campania on 1st February. Her London address is 56 Lancaster Gate. Sends compliments to Her Majesty [Ellen Terry]. She hears the South has a new cause for rebellion and wants to depose the President in favour of England's greatest knight. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | The letter is just possibly to Stoker, but Irving may have given him the final page, concerning him. The play being discussed may be her 'The School for Saints' which was given a reading/performance at the Lyceum on 30th March, according to Nicoll, during the Forbes-Robertson season. Irving was in New Orleans for the week 27th January - 1st February. | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 7606 | ||
| Author: | Aidé, Hamilton (Charles Hamilton) | ||
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| Address: | Ascot Wood Cottage, Ascot, Berks. | ||
| Recipient: | Stoker, Bram (Abraham) | ||
| Address: | Lyceum Theatre, Strand, London | ||
| Date: | 1898, July, 27 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He sends the play for Irving. Give it to him at once so he can read it in the country. Irving told him recently he had found a play by Aidé done up and addressed in a drawer. He has no idea what it is, but if Stoker can find it, please send. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Postmarked JY 26 98! See Letter 7610. | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 7609 | ||
| Author: | Aidé, Hamilton (Charles Hamilton) | ||
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| Address: | Ascot Wood Cottage, Ascot, Berks. | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1898], [July], [24?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Many years before he sent Irving the sketch of a melodrama he would have liked if not producing Shakespeare at the Lyceum. He wrote the play and put it away, not seeing a suitable actor for the chief character. As Irving now sometimes descends from Shakespeare he might like to see it. There is no part for Ellen Terry, the only individual woman being suited to Lady Bancroft, who liked it. He knows Irving is rehearsing - but let him know. He thinks 'Cyrano' unsuitable for England as it is too French and intellectual. He will be in London from 7th after which he hopes to see Irving. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Asked to send, BS 25/7/98. This might be the play 'Two Brothers' shown to Irving in 1889. | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 7610 | ||
| Author: | Anderson, Mary | ||
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| Address: | Court Farm, Broadway, Worcestershire | ||
| Recipient: | Stoker, Bram (Abraham) | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1898, Sept., 12 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Will he tell her if Irving intends to perform 'Cyrano' in London that year? Her husband is writing an article on the play for America and would like to know Irving's intentions. Greetings to him and Mrs Stoker. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | With stamped envelope. Irving bought the rights to 'Cyrano de Bergerac' in 1898, but decided not to perform it. Richard Mansfield was to produce it in America in the autumn. A note in an unidentified hand on p.2 asks whether any one else attempted doing this play. | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 7619 | ||
| Author: | Boyne, Leonard | ||
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| Address: | Coombe-Malden, Surrey | ||
| Recipient: | Stoker, Bram (Abraham) | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1894, July, 23 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He returns the ms. of 'Robert Emmett' which he does not quite like. Thank Mr Irving for allowing him to read it. (Postscript:) He enjoyed 'Beckett'. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Frank Marshall had written 'Robert Emmett' for Irving but the Lord Chamberlain refused a licence. It was a relative failure for Dion Boucicault in America. | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 7632 | ||