| Author: | Bancroft, Marie Effie | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | 18, Berkeley Square | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1887?] Sat. | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (7 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | She asks Irving's support for Squire Bancroft who is about to give a lecture on the Drama. Bancroft does not know, but he admires Irving so much, and Irving's approval and recommendation would do wonders. She also mentions their son George Bancroft, now at Oxford. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Marked 'Private'. The lecture is so far untraced. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/13) | ||
| Ref.No: | 278 | ||
| Author: | Bancroft, Marie Effie | ||
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| Address: | 18, Berkeley Square | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1888?], June, 20 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | She cannot be at the dinner - she will be selling [photographs?]. Bogie [Squire Bancroft] DV will be there. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | This may possibly to the supper at the Lyceum on 9th July 1888 for Sarah Bernhardt. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/13) | ||
| Ref.No: | 282 | ||
| Author: | Pigott, Edward Frederick Smyth | ||
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| Address: | 150, Oxford Street, W | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1888, May(?), 29 Tuesday | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He thinks there is a pension of £100 a year with the Charterhouse Fellowship. He wonders whether W.M. knew this? Perhaps it may solve the difficulty of the attendance which he requires. Could Irving bring it to his knowledge. Does Irving remember Sir Henry and Lady Blake who supped with him at the Lyceum? They are now in England and hope to see 'Macbeth' before they leave. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Writing difficult to decipher. Note states that Irving answered on 03/12/1888. W.M may be William Thomas Moncrieff who did go into the Charterhouse. See also letters from the Blakes. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/33) | ||
| Ref.No: | 2243 | ||
| Author: | Bancroft, Marie Effie | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | 18, Berkeley Square | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1892, Feb., 21 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (7 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | She apologizes because she had arranged a meeting between Laurence [Irving] and Tree about an engagement for Laurence in London. She is distressed to know that this is against Irving's wishes. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/13) | ||
| Ref.No: | 289 | ||
| Author: | Barnay, Ludwig | ||
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| Address: | 8 Craven St, Charing X | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1881], [June?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Thanks for tickets for that day. He could not pass through London without seeing the great artist. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Formally in French, addressing Irving as 'Monsieur'. The Saxe Meiningen Company performed at Drury Lane in London in the summer of 1881. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/13) | ||
| Ref.No: | 293 | ||
| Author: | Bancroft, Marie Effie | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | 18, Berkeley Square | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1895?], Nov., 18 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | The widow of Tom Robertson who died in an Asylum the last summer has sent her a painting of Grimaldi by De Wilde to sell. Is Irving interested to see it? Mrs Robertson is very poor. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | The actor and manager Tom Robertson died in 1895. Samuel De Wilde's 1820 painting of Grimaldi as clown is now in the Harvard Theatre Collection. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/13) | ||
| Ref.No: | 292 | ||
| Author: | Barnay, Ludwig | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | Berlin NW Kronprinzen Ufer 24 | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1882, June, 19 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He is pleased and astonished Irving has not forgotten him. He has read with great pleasure of the success of 'Romeo & Juliet'. He would have wished to have been at the grand supper and afterwards in "my much -loved Beefsteak Room'. He hopes to meet Irving the next year. He sends 10 guineas for his Theatrical Fund subscription. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/13) | ||
| Ref.No: | 298 | ||
| Author: | Barnay, Ludwig | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | - | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1887?] | ||
| Document Type: | Postcard | ||
| Content Summary: | A thousand greetings and thanks. He was touched to receive Irving's telegram. He hopes to see Irving the next day - he is too tired that day. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | This possibly refers to a greeting sent when the two actors were in New York in November 1887 or it may relate to another visit by Barnay to London. He refers to Irving as "My dear, dear friend". | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/13) | ||
| Ref.No: | 299 | ||
| Author: | Carte, Helen | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | 4, Adelphi Terrace, Strand | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1901, April, 7 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | She thanks Irving for his kind words. She expresses her grief on the death of her husband (Richard D'Oyly Carte) who was very fond of Irving and loved to speak of him. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/19) | ||
| Ref.No: | 304 | ||
| Author: | Carte, Richard D'Oyly | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | The Royal English Opera House, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1891, Feb., 6 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Thanks for Irving's note of congratulation on opening day. Everything is going splendidly. When will Irving come to see new opera and the theatre. Carte will keep him a box. Carte will be coming to supper on Tuesday though he does not usually come to supper as it disagrees with him and he is an early riser. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/19) | ||
| Ref.No: | 306 | ||