| Author: | Young, Charles Lawrence | ||
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| Address: | Peterley Manor, Great Missenden, Bucks | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | |||
| Date: | 1874, Aug., 12 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Hopes Irving has not forgotten that he promised to visit them that month. Can he manage Sunday 23rd? They will be in town Saturday 22nd as he wants Beatrice in 'Le Sphinx' and they might come down together by early train on Sunday morning and Irving can return by the midday train on Monday. Let them know if he can manage this. Lady Young sends kind remembrances. | ||
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| Notes: | The opening night of 'The Sphinx' by Campbell Clarke, at the Haymarket Theatre, 1874. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/44) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4540 | ||
| Author: | Webber, Thomas | ||
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| Address: | 82, Lombard Street | ||
| Recipient: | Not known | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1875, May, 14 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He praises 'your friend's rendering' which like Macklin's Shylock seems newly created. He has seen all Hamlets since 1824 and held Charles Mayne Young the best but now rethinks his opinion. He discusses other actors. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Written to a friend of Irving's and intended for Irving to see and preserve. There is also a letter from W. Bayle Bernard from Brighton to Bateman 30/6/1875, about Irving's Hamlet. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM 37/1/15) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4546 | ||
| Author: | Wingfield, Lewis Strange | ||
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| Address: | 14 Montague Place, W.C. | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1889], [Jan.] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Their old friend Jimmy Rodgers of Birmingham comes up for election [to the Garrick Club] the next Saturday, and he thinks he will be blackballed as a mere Provincial Manager. They know this is not so and no one has done more for the Birmingham theatre - and it will break his heart if blackballed. His proposer (Johnny Toole) will have a matinee but if Irving could come down to Saturday's Committee they might manage to pull him through. Try to come down at 3.30 if he can, as his influence used with discretion would probably succeed. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | James Rodgers was proposed for membership in July 1888 and duly elected on 5th January 1889. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/43) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4550 | ||
| Author: | Wingfield, Lewis Strange | ||
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| Address: | 14 Montague Place, Russell Square | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1889], [March], [2] Saturday | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | At the Committee Meeting at the Garrick Club the new picture was displayed on the easel - a royal gift. All agreed that Irving's proposed place over the mantelpiece in the smokingroom would not do. Fires do harm amd not everyone would see it. The hanging is considered by a small subcommittee of which Sir John Gilbert is chief and the general opinion the proper place is a central position on the stairs where it will be well lighted and all who enter can see it. Why not a few hundred more gifts of like quality? | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Irving had given the Garrick Club George Clint's painting of Edmund Kean in 'A New Way to Pay Old Debts'. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/43) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4551 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | Lyceum Theatre | ||
| Recipient: | Wingfield, Lewis Strange | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1889, March, 4 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He is glad that Wingfield likes the picture & that Edmund Kean will be remembered on the 'Garrick' [Club] walls. He is sure the Committee will hang the picture in the right place wherever that might be. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Irving had presented George Clint's painting of Edmund Kean in 'A New Way to Pay Old Debts' to the Garrick Club. See also Letter 4551. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/14/9/8(1)) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4552 | ||
| Author: | Wingfield, Lewis Strange | ||
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| Address: | 14 Montague Place, Russell Sq., W.C. (Printed: Helix House, 75 Marine Parade, Brighton crossed through) | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1889], [Oct.], [21?] Monday | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | They are going to elevate the Lord Mayor's show that year introducing archaeological interest and proper spectacle in place of the poor circus and wild beast show. This is troublesome and expensive as nearly everything has to be new. Augustus Harris is lending the Queen Elizabeth costume and a few more from the 'Armada' and Wingfield thought Irving might lend two suits of armour for knights in the Joust. He remembers Irving had a lot of suits in 'Louis XI' of the right period. One section represents ancient sports and pastimes of England. They would take great care if Irving would agree. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | 'The Armada' was staged at Drury Lane in 1888. Irving lent the armour; see Letter 4558. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/43) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4557 | ||
| Author: | Mounet-Sully, Jean | ||
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| Address: | St. James' Hotel (on Compagnie Générale Transatlantique headed paper) | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1894, March, 19 Monday | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Thanks for Irving's invitation brought by Mr Grau just as he was leaving for America. He thinks it will bring him good luck. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/39) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4562 | ||
| Author: | Wallack, John Johnstone “Lester” | ||
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| Address: | 13 West 30th Street, New York | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1886?], March, 30 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He writes on behalf of a young man who left England (leaving wife & children at home), seized with cancer of the tongue who the physicians say will not live three months. The Actors' Fund there have sent him home and the companies of one or two theatres have subscribed money in addition. His name is Henry Siddons, a member of the family of tragedians. As President of the Actors' Benevolent Fund he hopes Irving will be able to free his last days of want and suffering. (Postscript:) Henry Siddons' address is 29 Grange Road, Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Henry Siddons who acted as Harry Palmer died in 1886 aged 41. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/42) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4575 | ||
| Author: | Warner, Charles | ||
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| Address: | Princess's Theatre | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1887, July, 25 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | On his return from America would Irving who is putting on 'Macbeth' consider Warner as Macduff? | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | George Alexander played Macduff in the Lyceum 'Macbeth' on 29th December. With scribbled note of Irving's reply in blue pencil on verso, marked Private, saying that it would be premature to talk about Macbeth, but that he could almost say his arrangements were already made. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/42) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4577 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | 15A, Grafton Street | ||
| Recipient: | Martin, Theodore | ||
| Address: | |||
| Date: | 1879, July, 7 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter | ||
| Content Summary: | Thanks for showing Irving the interesting letter [from Geraldine. E. Jewsbury]. Her criticism of Mrs Martin [Helen Faucit] is true and just. If Kean's interpretation of Shakespeare was like reading him by flashes of lightning, Mrs Martin's is by the broad light of the sun. A more truthful and exquisite conception of Rosalind never entered the imagination of man. Fletcher's account of Mrs Martin's Lady Macbeth was confirmed to him by the one scene. | ||
| Published: | T. Martin. Helen Faucit, W. Blackwood, 1900, p.359. | ||
| Notes: | Irving and Helen Faucit gave a reading of 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'As You Like It' on 03/07/1879. After the reading was finished Helen Faucit added Lady Macbeth's sleep-walking scene. Geraldine Jewsbury's favourable letter about Irving's reading is also reproduced on p.358-59. | ||
| Document Holder: | Pd | ||
| Ref.No: | 4594 | ||