| Author: | Mansfield, Richard | ||
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| Address: | Langham Hotel, Portland Place, London, W. | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1889, May, 22 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He intends to close on Saturday week. It has been a bitter disappointment. Business is worse and worse. In future he will work in America. The money he owes will be repaid with interest from the receipts the next season and Stoker can regard it as funds in the bank. The last night on Saturday week could be the occasion of a friendly party at the theatre and elsewhere. Will Irving help? | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Mansfield did not repay the first part of the loan until 1894, and the full amount until 1896. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/30) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2747 | ||
| Author: | Mansfield, Richard | ||
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| Address: | Langham Hotel, Portland Place, London, W | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1889], [June?], [9?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He enjoyed the jolly supper and wishes he could be with Irving more often to give a more favourable impression. He encloses the letter from Lady Emily Cadogan (Mrs Chandos). Since writing she told Mr Price to whom it alluded, i.e. Mr & Mrs Alexander, and that day Miss Merissa(?) Nevill told him she had heard the same thing. He told her he was going (on 1st July) at least he will close then and try to see more of Irving. Will he come to the Langham or go to Richmond on Sunday week? | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | This is the party referred to in Letter 2747. The rumour about the Alexanders is unexplained. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/30) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2748 | ||
| Author: | Mansfield, Richard | ||
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| Address: | The Croisic, Cor. 26th St & 5th Ave [New York] | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1889, Dec., 12 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4+[4] p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He has been waiting to write in the hope that things would improve. With Christmas and New Year wishes he apologises for all the trouble he has been. He has had two years of ill luck. America is in a very bad way - all fail except "society snobs and ballet girls". He is glad Irving is not there in the depression. He himself is staggering [to]... | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | The letter was separated by L. Irving and the second half is Letter 2751. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/30) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2749 | ||
| Author: | Mansfield, Richard | ||
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| Address: | Tour of Mr Richard Mansfield (printed) Stillman House, Cleveland | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1890, April, 14 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (12 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | It has been a terrible season and only the Kendals make money, probably by appealing to American snobbery. Only society plays and song and dance make money. He regrets he is unable to repay his debt to Irving. He is working all summer at the Madison Square Theatre. If he had not gone to England he would have had 150,000. He thinks Irving and Miss Terry would make a great deal of money if they come without scenery and an expensive company. Beatrice has gone to England and is at the Hattons. Irving should go from San Francisco to Australia. A former member of Irving's company has explained how Irving is cheated over scenery and wardrobe, etc. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/30) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2750 | ||
| Author: | Mansfield, Richard | ||
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| Address: | The Croisic, Cor. 26th St & 5th Ave [New York] | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1889], [Dec.], [12] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter | ||
| Content Summary: | ... succeed in keeping himself afloat. He hopes he will live to pay Irving the interest he owes in money if not in friendship. He will gladly do anything Irving wants done. He has a scheme which might pay Irving back and give him money. If Irving would tour again he could manage it and he could come to England at the same time not necessaily to the Lyceum. Experience has taught him he should only do 'Beau Brummel' - 'Chicot' and another comedy. What does Irving say? He thinks it would be a sucess. Tell no one. It is bold and original and in many ways desirable. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | This is probably the second part of Letter 2749. Irving obviously showed it to Ellen Terry who has added a pencil note at end: "He is a very impudent fellow". With typewritten transcript. It is referred to in Letter 2244. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/1/36) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2751 | ||
| Author: | Mansfield, Richard | ||
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| Address: | Auditorium Hotel, Chicago | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1898], Dec., 16 Friday | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He is glad Irving is getting well, and is sure a tour of America with his old repertoire would be profitable. 'Cyrano de Begerac' is a growing success but he does not know how it would fare in London. In America the press cannot kill a good thing. If Irving does not care to play the arduous part of Cyrano himself Mansfield might be interested and would share the profits. He would have to know at once. If the season were profitable there are other plays London has not seen. A.M. Palmer is now his manager and will help Irving if required without payment. He wished to see Irving in London but one week was too short for all he had to do. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Letters to 316 Riverside Drive, New York City always find him. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/30) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2752 | ||
| Author: | Power, Clavering | ||
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| Address: | 39, Warwick Road, West Brompton. | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1875?], [April? ], 19 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Sorry Irving could not attend dinner the day before. Could he come the next Sunday, but if not name own day and time. Power has left Notting Hill for a lively spot close to Brompton Cemetery opposite St Matthias Church. | ||
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| Notes: | A R[ober]t Power is at this address in the 1875 London directory. The blank page has been used for monetary calculations. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/34) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2764 | ||
| Author: | Priestley, Eliza | ||
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| Address: | 17, Hertford Street, Mayfair | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1889, April, 30 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Irving is part of a deputation going to visit the Home Secretary about 'Children on the Stage'. She has always thought that children who acted in the Drury Lane pantomime had a better chance of recovery from dangerous illness than their sick neighbours. She had experience of this when Dr Priestley was at King's College Hospital in a ward for sick children founded by Mr Peter Baillie. She is angered by the present outcry and hopes reason and commonsense will prevail. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Irving quoted this letter in full in his speech during a deputation of managers to the Home Secretary on the employment of children in the theatre on 17th May 1889. The text of the speech is at SCL (RL2/57/112). | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/34) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2773 | ||
| Author: | Riley, James Whitcomb | ||
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| Address: | The Tavistock | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | Lyceum Theatre | ||
| Date: | 1891, July, 17 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter | ||
| Content Summary: | Since he does not leave London until Aug. 1 he is delighted to accept Irving's request to come round after the play on his last night on 25th. (Postscript:) He was there the night before and it continues to be a revelation, strong & rounded. He kept wishing Shakespeare, Sheridan, Garrick, etc. were there to see what the stage is doing new. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/1/31) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2770 | ||
| Author: | Swinburne, Algernon Charles | ||
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| Address: | - | ||
| Recipient: | Gosse, Edmund William | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1891], Aug., 15 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | If Irving wishes to recite his published verses on the Marlowe memorial he has no objection. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | The letter was passed to Irving. See his correspondence with Edmund Gosse about unveiling the Marlowe Memorial at Canterbury, 1891. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/1/31) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2784 | ||