| Author: | Wills, William Gorman | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | Ailsa Villa, St Margaret's, Twickenham | ||
| Recipient: | Stoker, Bram (Abraham) | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1885] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He is grateful to his dear and trusty friend Irving for his suggestion about Vienna. Wills is getting old and has relations to support. This looks well. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Performance rights in 'Olivia'. With correspondence about interest in the play in Vienna between Stoker, Louis Austin, Joseph R. Fisher of 'The Standard' and Dr Adolf von Wilbrandt, etc. Irving refused all applications for the play to be performed in English. | ||
| Document Holder: | BTC (Reference: 2006/0078 (Box 2)) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4393 | ||
| Author: | Wills, William Gorman | ||
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| Address: | Garrick Club | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1873?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He would like to see dear old Simpson's ms. as he knows nothing about the plot which he is prepared to accept as long as the construction is approved by Mr Bateman and Irving. Wills must do the dialogue. Simpson has told Sandys, Jervis &c. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Marked: Strictly private. The play is unidentified but this is probably John Palgrave Simpson. His play 'Alone' in 1873 was written jointly with H.C. Merivale. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/1/25) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4404 | ||
| Author: | Wills, William Gorman | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | The Old Ship Hotel, Brighton | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1888?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He feels bruised by the shock of Sunday but it is all for the best. He does not care to write for anyone but Irving. He notes that Irving knows Lord Ronald Gower. Gower had begun by abusing 'The Pompadour' but Wills pointed out the author was present and he became a pleasant acquaintance. Wills then tells an anecdote about Browning. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Possibly a play by Wills was refused on Sunday? 'The Pompadour' by Wills and Sydney Grundy was performed at the Haymarket Theatre on 31/03/1888. "1884" is pencilled on the letter. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/1/25) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4407 | ||
| Author: | Arnold, (Robert) Arthur | ||
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| Address: | 45, Kensington Park Gardens, W | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1898, June, 22 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Irving signed the Memorial as to Opera printed in 'The Times'. Arnold wishes the views that Irving expressed at Cambridge should be more fully considered and Arnold will propose a motion that the General Purposes Committee of the L.C.C. investigate connections of drama, opera and municipal governments in Paris, Berlin and Brussels and report back. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | The London County Council was responsible for licensing and regulating London theatres from November 1889. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/11) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4416 | ||
| Author: | Arnold, Edwin | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | Imperial Hotel, Tokio [Tokyo], Japan | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1892, July, 17 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (4 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Arnold has written a masterpiece - a Japanese play in four acts - dramatic, noble, and tender. He would like Irving and Ellen Terry to appear in it. Irving may doubt that a politician and a poet can write an actable play - Tennyson can't - but Arnold's play with Irving would hold London spellbound. He hopes to sell copies at the Chicago World Fair. He is leaving Japan on 29th August on the Empress of China. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | The play listed by Nicoll is 'Adzuma; or, The Japanese Wife', 1893. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/12) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4414 | ||
| Author: | Arnold, Augustus Walter | ||
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| Address: | 9, Sussex Place, Hyde Park, W | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1879, Dec., 31 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Thanks Irving for cheque. Praises the play and production the previous night very highly and Ellen Terry, too. Irving has restored the theatre in a way not seen since the days of Madame Vestris. He hopes Irving will remain his tenant not for five but many years. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Arnold was owner of the Lyceum. Play probably 'The Merchant of Venice'. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/11) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4418 | ||
| Author: | Waller, Lewis (William Waller Lewis) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | Green Room Club, 20 Bedford Street, WC | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1897, Jan., 7 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | If Irving has not already cast the part of Napoleon doesn't he think it would suit Waller? He could get the appearance easily. He hopes Irving's health is better and that he is free from pain. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Irving played Napoleon in 'Madame Sans-Gêne' himself. He had injured his knee after the first night of 'Richard III'. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/42) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4428 | ||
| Author: | Wills, William Gorman | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | 454A Fulham Studios, Walham Green | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1891], [Feb.]. [26] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He encloses the answer from Isabel Bateman which acquits Mrs Bateman of cheating. Would Irving advise as to answer by a line from Stoker. It must be about being friends. He thinks the cuts in 'Charles I' are judicious. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Negotiations over renewed rights in 'Charles I'. Isabel Bateman's letter dated 26/02/1891 is present. | ||
| Document Holder: | BTC (Reference: 2006/0078 (Box 2)) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4443 | ||
| Author: | Yates, Edmund Hodgson | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | 22B, Cavendish Square | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1875, Nov., 30 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He has delayed thanking Irving for the portrait of Robert Brough. It is a wonderful likeness of that unhappy genius. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Robert Barnabas Brough, 1828-1860, collaborated with Yates in 'Our Miscellany' published by Routledge.; wrote novel 'Marston Lynch; a Radical'. There was a benefit performance on his death for his family. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/44) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4447 | ||
| Author: | Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Address: | 16, Tite Street, Chelsea, S.W. | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1891], [Feb.], [1?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (8 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He again offers Irving his play 'The Duchess of Padua' which has just been performed anonymously in New York by Laurence Barrett with great success. Only Irving in England can produce poetic blank-verse drama and has created an audience for it. Wilde offers to send a copy - uncut it is too long, but the New York version lasts three hours. | ||
| Published: | O.Wilde, Letters, 2000, p.467. | ||
| Notes: | The play had been produced in New York on 26/1/1891 as 'Guido Ferranti'. Irving annotated the letter "and congratulations, send it. HI 2.2.91". | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/1/24) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4456 | ||