| Author: | Coote, John | ||
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| Address: | 67, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1891, Jan.,13 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Would Irving like to buy 'Hunted Down' for thirty guineas? It is the play in which Coote first saw Irving perform at the St James' Theatre in 1866. He purchased it at a sale of Dion Boucicault's properties. He has two books of the play. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Note added by Bram Stoker saying he saw Coote and bought acting rights for £31-10-00. The envelope for this letter may be preserved in Box 5. | ||
| Document Holder: | BTC (Reference: 2006/0078 (Box 2)) | ||
| Ref.No: | 627 | ||
| Author: | Coquelin, Ernest Alexandre Honoré | ||
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| Address: | 6, Rue de Presbourg, Paris | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1891?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Sending manuscript of piece they talked about when he and Irving had supper 'chez nous'. He thinks after adaptation it would succeed at the Lyceum. He is hoping to attend first night of 'Henry VIII'. Would Irving return ms. when convenient. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | In French. The first night of 'King Henry VIII' was on 5th January 1892. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/20) | ||
| Ref.No: | 654 | ||
| Author: | Courtney, William Leonard | ||
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| Address: | Chillesford, Wickham Market, Suffolk | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1891, Aug., 19 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Has finished scheme of play 'A double self or Jekyll & Hyde' and would like Irving to see it before further work. Language rather rough at present but having it typed. Can easily come up to London. Hopes Irving's throat is better. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | The play is not mentioned by Nicoll and Irving may have told Courtney of other existing versions. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/21) | ||
| Ref.No: | 676 | ||
| Author: | Courtney, William Leonard | ||
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| Address: | Daily Telegraph | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1892, May, 4 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Despite its strength does not think the play great. No relief from squalor and crime. The wife's lapse is ludicrous; 'it is only melodrama gone wrong'. He hopes he is not mistaken. | ||
| Published: | |||
| Notes: | Character in play is Klemn- hero and murderer. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/21) | ||
| Ref.No: | 678 | ||
| Author: | Byron, Henry James | ||
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| Address: | Lauriston, 44 Larkhall Rise, Clapham | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1875, March, 29 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Knowles had kept him on tenter-hooks for days about doing something for his final performances, but found it impossible as he had so few people, so Byron could have gone to Irving's dinner. Sometime before Bateman had expressed a vague interest in a modern society play of his, later revived but cancelled by his sudden death. Can Irving give him a hint as to the future? He heard of two other deaths the same day that Bateman's came as a shock. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Knowles may be the manager, John Knowles. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/19) | ||
| Ref.No: | 722 | ||
| Author: | Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts | ||
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| Address: | Stratton St | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1879, March, 24 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | It is cold, and if Irving thinks of the Children's Hour she is occupied for the next two days with committees and early dinner. She has read the play and praises its poetry and dramatic feeling with appropriate female parts. Whichever part Irving took would be a magnificent historic portrait, but would the public care? She doubts it, as the only feeling to excite is religious, which might not satisfy those who find belief in the poetry of Hamlet, or appeal to modern sympathies. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | The Children's Hour was Hannah Brown's name for the time between 5 and 6 pm when Irving often called in at Stratton Street. The play was Tennyson's 'Becket' which had been finished in 1879 and was announced for production from the stage of the Lyceum as 'Eleanor and Rosamund' at about this time. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/8) | ||
| Ref.No: | 780 | ||
| Author: | Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts | ||
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| Address: | Stratton St | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1882, Oct., 15 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4+ p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | She was sorry to miss Irving on Saturday, and it will be impossible to be at home at the Children's Hour as she has a Committee at the Art Students' Home until late afternoon. It is not her usual day and her husband did not know she had arranged it. They are only away for a few days and when they return she hopes Irving may come to see her. She wishes to hear of his future plans and about a play sent to him by a Mrs Lockwood. She was about to write to him enclosing the play and letters... | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | The rest is missing. The play is unidentified. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/8) | ||
| Ref.No: | 901 | ||
| Author: | Booth, Edwin Thomas | ||
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| Address: | St James's Hotel, Piccadilly | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1881, Feb., 6 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He sends Irving a set of his bound promptbooks. (Postscript) Has he ever thought of doing Talfourd's 'Ion'? The characters Ion & Adrastus would suit Irving & Miss Terry, with good opportunity for scenic effects and costume. When Booth gets through the 'Lear' rehearsals he wants to arrange a day to chat with Irving. | ||
| Published: | L. Irving, p.369-70. | ||
| Notes: | This was Irving's birthday. With typewritten transcript. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/1/21) | ||
| Ref.No: | 934 | ||
| Author: | Doyle, Arthur Conan | ||
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| Address: | 12, Tennison Road, South Norwood | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1892, March, 5 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Thanks for Irving's kind note. Sending typewritten copy of the little play by that post. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | This is 'A Story of Waterloo'. On 26th February 1892 Conan Doyle records in a letter to his mother that he is writing that evening to Irving to ask if he will produce his veteran play. (See Arthur Conan Doyle: a life in letters, Harper Press, 2007, p.312.) Summarised by courtesy of the Conan Doyle Estate Ltd. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/22) | ||
| Ref.No: | 957 | ||
| Author: | Doyle, Arthur Conan | ||
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| Address: | South Norwood | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1894, Sept., 22 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (5 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Congratulations on 'Waterloo' and for making Doyle's old veteran live with insight and tender sympathy. Has another proposition - he is writing four act play with brother-in-law, E.W.Hornung which would give Irving high comedy as well as tragedy. Two acts completed. Set in Waterloo period and deals with diplomatic and military circles. Leading character Sir Charles Tregellis, a Regency buck. Finishes with the Duchess of Rutland's Ball in Brussels. A part for Ellen Terry but not as good as Sir Charles for Irving. Should be ready for Christmas. Should they submit first act? Leaves for America the next day. Hornung's address is 14, Rossetti Mansions, Chelsea. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | The play is not listed by Nicoll. Summarised by courtesy of the Conan Doyle Estate Ltd. | ||
| Document Holder: | BTC (Reference: 2006/0078 (Box 2)) | ||
| Ref.No: | 959 | ||