| Author: | Moreau, Emile | ||
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| Address: | Brimon sur Armamgan, Yonne | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | [London] | ||
| Date: | [1899], [Aug.] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Coquelin is doing a play about Judge Jefferies [sic] that Mansfield played in New York and he suggests Irving play it in London. Miss Marbury will send him the manuscript. While waiting for Irving's opinion he would like to receive the book Irving's son has just published on Jeffries. Thanks in advance. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | 'The Life of Judge Jeffreys', 1898, the book by H.B. Irving, sent by BS 5/9/99. | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 8140 | ||
| Author: | Pollock, Walter Herries | ||
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| Address: | F[ort/ift]y, Cornwell Residences, Regent's Park | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | [London] | ||
| Date: | [1879?], [Nov.], [18] Tuesday | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | (Walter:) Sends what he forgot to leave the previous night. Would like to rewrite the other, a fresh start being better. Would Irving remember to send him 'The Count's Secret' with 1 or 2 playbills for 'The Merchant of Venice'. They wish they were going to meet him that night. (Emma:) Walter enjoyed himself the night before. She is glad Irving comes to them the next day week. Baked potatoes. Him alone. (Walter:) Last night he forgot to say he had been asked to give a Friday evening lecture at the Royal Institution the next season and had picked 'Shakespearean Criticism'. He wants to consult Irving. His chief asks for seats for the next Wednesday . | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Written jointly by Walter Pollock and his wife Emma. Note of a box sent 21/11/79, also 2 stalls for 26th. The first play mentioned is unidentified, and 'The Count's Secret ' is untraced. In 1880 Pollock refers to the manuscript of 'A Terrible Villain' in a letter to Stoker, and to another lost ms. | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 8158 | ||
| Author: | Wills, William Gorman | ||
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| Address: | - | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1872?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He has sent Irving 'Eugene [Aram]' Delay caused by not sending two pages to his copyist. He asks Irving to notice certain passages especially the last scene with Ruth. Wills is under financial embarrassment so a cheque will be very welcome. | ||
| Published: | L. Irving, p.227-28. | ||
| Notes: | 'Eugene Aram' was to replace 'Charles I' at the Lyceum on 19th April 1873. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/1/25) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4325 | ||
| Author: | Taber, Robert | ||
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| Address: | Palace Hotel, San Francisco, Cal. | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | [London] | ||
| Date: | 1896, Oct., 18 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He reminds Irving that they met at the house of mutual friends the Dunhams, New York City. He has heard Irving no longer intends to keep 'Olivia' in repertoire and would like to purchase the play or its American rights, or American rights for a limited time. (Postscript:) Permanent address; The Players, 16 Gramercy Pl, New York City, N.J. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 5356 | ||
| Author: | Stannard, Henrietta Eliza Vaughan “John Strange Winter” | ||
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| Address: | 28 rue de la Halle-au-blé, Dieppe | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | [London] | ||
| Date: | 1896, Nov., 13 | ||
| Document Type: | Postcard (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | A word on behalf of a clever great friend sure to succeed as a novelist, and doing well as a journalist as London Correpondent of the 'Edinburgh Evening Dispatch'. Will he put her on first night list? Miss Venne has not asked but regrets writing reviews from other papers. She has written a play sometimes performed and is part author of a play bought by Mr Hastings, and a monologue she wants Irving to see. Can she send it? She wishes she could come to the 25th silver fête but Arthur [her husband] has been ill and returns on Wednesday. She has not been well but would like to see some plays. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Marked: very glad. Nicoll does not list any plays by Lottie Venne. | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 8310 | ||
| Author: | Traill, Henry Duff | ||
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| Address: | 47, Gordon Square, W.C. | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | [London] | ||
| Date: | 1897, June, 5 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He sends the Introduction & Scenario of the first three acts previously sketched out to Irving, and asks him to read it on Sunday. The plan of the 4th & last act will be finished by the time Irving comes the next Wednesday night. They have changed Irving's intended character making him more devilish, with death inevitable at the end of short 4th act. They are thinking of a melodramatic end for Irving but making the other scenes and characters as realistic as possible. The combination of modern society with melodrama is just what Irving wants. Please bring the typewritten scenario on Wednesday night as it is the only copy in that form | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Early work on 'The Medicine Man'. | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 5391 | ||
| Author: | Traill, Henry Duff | ||
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| Address: | The Athenaeum, Pall Mall, S.W. | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | [London] | ||
| Date: | 1898, March, 20 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Following the suggestion Hichens said had just been made, he has written a short scene for Sam Cheeseman & Joe Green in the Doctor's consulting room in Act III. He gives details and thinks it will also make a more effective exit. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Development of 'The Medicine Man'. | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 5392 | ||
| Author: | Tyrrell, Robert Yelverton | ||
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| Address: | 4 Trin[ity] Coll[ege], Dublin (University Club crossed through) | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | [Lyceum Theatre] | ||
| Date: | [1897?], [Jan.?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He hopes Act I of his play 'Esmond' may have interested Irving and sends the first attempt at Act IV. He is an old friend. and is sorry about Irving's accident which he believes not serious. He forgets private address so sends to the theatre. He enjoyed 'Cymbeline' when last in London and reads Miss Terry is away. He would like to tell her his impression of her Imogen. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | On 29th December 1896 Tyrrell wrote to Stoker saying he was sending the first act of 'Esmond' to Irving, asking Stoker's opnion too, and saying he thought Irving would be a splendid Esmond and Ellen Terry, Lady Castlewood (from the novel by W.M. Thackeray). | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 8318 | ||
| Author: | Voss, Richard | ||
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| Address: | Hotel Marienbad, München (Bavaria) | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1894, Oct., 19 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Being unsure if Irving remembered him, he asked the Duke of Meiningen to introduce him. He was glad to meet the "hero of dramatic art", His play 'Guilty' was specially translated for Irving but he never heard if he read it. If not, may he send. It has been translated by J.Stirling Weir(?) of Edinburgh who will give Irving the copy. He would be pleased if Irving approved of the play. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Possibly copied by Voss in English. Irving had contemplated producing the play 'Schuldig' in 1891 (see under that title). | ||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 5405 | ||
| Author: | Wilbrandt, Adolf von | ||
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| Address: | Rostock u Mecklenburg | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1897, March, 18 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He is pleased and honoured by Irving's interest in his poetic play 'Hairan' and wish to read it. However this seems useless as the Berlin first performance was followed by a police ban, and he thinks England is even stricter on this one point, and stage performance would not be permitted. He is sorry it will not be produced on Irving's "famous and elevated stage". | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) | ||
| Ref.No: | 5424 | ||