| Author: | Labouchère, Henry Du Pré | ||
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| Address: | Stled(?) | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1877?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Delighted. Their theatre closes that afternoon or evening - the entertainment has been rather dull of late, but it has drawn, as for some mysterious reason there have been crowds every evening to get into the gallery. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Labouchère's wife Henrietta Hodson managed the Royalty Theatre from 1872-77 and retired from the stage in 1878. Labouchère himself had a financial interest in the Queen's Theatre which closed in 1879, and also in the Imperial Theatre. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/28) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4654 | ||
| Author: | Labouchère, Henry Du Pré | ||
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| Address: | 10, Queen Anne's Gate, St James's Park | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1883?], March, 2 | ||
| Document Type: | Postcard (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Could Irving give him his views on the proper method to deal with theatres by the authorities. They will soon have the Bill & he thinks it would be useful to ventilate the subject. (Postscript:) Could Irving not give a few facts in regard to the Lyceum? | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Labouchère was re-elected to Parliament in 1880, and also involved in theatre ownership. Theatrical legislation was passed in 1883, 1884, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1890, & 1891. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/28) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4656 | ||
| Author: | Labouchère, Henry Du Pré | ||
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| Address: | Pope's Villa, Twickenham | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1886?] Monday | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | The enclosed is for Irving's private reading. He will see that Harcourt(?) is frightened and afraid of the rest of Shaw's Reports. Irving had better look - or make his lawyer look at the Act to which he refers. He & Labouchère looked at it a week or two before and he held that "moderate" meant that the cost was not excessive for the work done. Labouchère thought he was mistaken and that it means non-structural alterations, or reasonable repairs. Labouchère fancies that if Irving is called on to make great alterations he might go to arbitration on the ground that the Metropolitan Board cannot order any beyond what is moderate. It is a question of whether the Lord Chamberlain could not force them to be made on expiry of lease - if so an arrangement might be made giving time - i.e. allowing them to be made during a dead season. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Headed: Private. Harcourt may be Sir William, the Home Secretary. Sir Eyre Massey Shaw made a series of reports on fire dangers in theatres, and Bills to increase the power of the Metropolitan Board of Works were tabled in 1886 and 1887. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/28) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4658 | ||
| Author: | Labouchère, Henry Du Pré | ||
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| Address: | 10 Queen Anne's Gate, St James's Street | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1886?], March, 10 | ||
| Document Type: | Postcard (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | Thanks for the enclosed which he will publish the next week. He was not able to get to the Home Office that day with the deputation as he had to be in the City. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | Labouchère was proprietor of 'Truth'. The deputation may have been in connection with legislation over the Metropolitan Board of Works; see Letter 4658. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/28) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4659 | ||
| Author: | Labouchère, Henry Du Pré | ||
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| Address: | 5 Old Palace Yard, S.W. | ||
| Recipient: | Irving, Henry | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1892] Sunday | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (2 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He supposes Irving read his case at the Mansion House. It would be good if Irving would write a line saying how difficult it would be even for him to get a girl on the stage and how unlikely for anyone to get an engagement after a dozen lessons from a man like Gardiner - the rascal admitted his master made 1500 a year out of kitchen maids, which he thinks true and that others are doing the same. A word from Irving would be a useful warning and would do more to put off silly girls than he can do. Scoundrels like this do great harm to the theatrical profession. (Postscript:) He saw Irving's son in Court, how like he is to how Irving looked when they were both young. Let him have the letter by Tuesday morning as they go to press at one o'clock that day. He hopes Harry is doing well. Labouchère has had influenza. | ||
| Published: | - | ||
| Notes: | John James Gardiner was tried for fraud, conspiracy and assault on four aspiring actresses. For a possible note by Irving on this subject see Letter 4645. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM/37/7/28) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4662 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | [Birmingham] | ||
| Recipient: | Terry, Ellen Alice | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | [1888], [Nov.], [14?] | ||
| Document Type: | Letter | ||
| Content Summary: | Irving thinks Fussie has got wind of going to London. To his surprise he collared a whole kidney and defiantly jumped on the sofa. He is sure it is at the thought of seeing Ellen. He would do the same in his position so Fussie was forgiven! The enclosed from 'that cad, Coquelin' is too rich. Coquelin as Macbeth? What next? Goodbye, his dearest life for one, two, three days. Every morning is now bright. | ||
| Published: | R.Manvell, Ellen Terry, p.245-6. | ||
| Notes: | One month before the opening of 'Macbeth'. Irving was to escort Ellen Terry from London to Birmingham on 18th November. The Coquelin source is untraced. Letter originally in possession of Edward Gordon Craig. Then in private ownership in U.S.A.? | ||
| Document Holder: | Pd | ||
| Ref.No: | 4665 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | [Lowestoft?] | ||
| Recipient: | Terry, Ellen Alice | ||
| Address: | [Tower Cottage, Winchelsea?] | ||
| Date: | 1890, July, 25 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (3 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He hopes Ellen is resting and likes the place. Air will revive her like magic. This place suits him - quiet, unfashionable, unlovely. Hatton is coming on Sunday. Hatton is soon leaving the Herald and going to America to look after Willard. He did not tell Irving. He was at Daly's the other night with Clementina [Clement Scott] and Winter. They are 'false, false all round' and he was glad Ellen was not there. In the office afterwards the Labouchères were there and Mrs Moulton and American reporters. Labby asked Irving if he was glad Daly was doing Shakespeare and he said 'Of course, the finest the world has seen'. It was a good shut-up in the lightest manner. Henrietta Hodson grinned like a cat! Irving is not brown yet but will soon be 'the dark Edgar'. Feels Edgar [in 'Ravenswood'] is too young for him now and so is Hamlet. Tree and Barrett are youngsters and have the monopoly etc. Tree was sly the other night and Mrs Herby [Maud Tree] gushing. He wants to get to Winchelsea and 'my Nell'. Dull there but he will stick to his work and walk it off. 'Rest my love and send your love to me the whole day long - I do to you - my dearest, dearest love, my Queen - the Queen of every woman. P.S. Hopes she got the watch. Love to Edie[sic] and Ted when she writes. | ||
| Published: | L. Irving, p.526 (in part). | ||
| Notes: | THM 37/1/30 is copy of letter in Laurence Irving's hand made from copy made by Gordon Craig of an original letter belonging to Christopher St John; THM/37/1/57 typewritten transcript only. | ||
| Document Holder: | THM (Reference: THM 37/1/30) | ||
| Ref.No: | 4667 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | Lyceum Theatre | ||
| Recipient: | Calvert, Adelaide Helen | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1891, Jan., 13 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter (1 p.) | ||
| Content Summary: | He has not forgotten their conversation and whenever he has anything definite to propose he will communicate with her. Good wishes. (Postscript:) He thanks her for the picture which he finds very interesting. | ||
| Published: | A. Calvert, Sixty-eight years on the stage, p.194 (facsim.) | ||
| Notes: | |||
| Document Holder: | Pd | ||
| Ref.No: | 4672 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | Lyceum Theatre | ||
| Recipient: | Ward, Henrietta Mary Ada | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1891, Jan., 2 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter | ||
| Content Summary: | He thanks her warmly for the delightful picture which will forever carry sweet memories of her husband. He hopes she will always come to the theatre where she will always be welcome. Has she seen 'Much Ado'? He thinks she will like their production on which they are all hard at work. New Year good wishes. | ||
| Published: | H. Ward, Memories of ninety years, [1924], p.201. | ||
| Notes: | Mrs Ward had sent Irving a study of Fechter as Hamlet by her dead husband E.M. Ward. 'Much Ado About Nothing' was revived on 5th January 1891. She also describes how soon after widowhood she had a touching letter from Irving, offering his private box if she came to the theatre, and use of the private entrance in Burleigh Street. | ||
| Document Holder: | Pd | ||
| Ref.No: | 4674 | ||
| Author: | Irving, Henry | ||
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| Address: | 15A, Grafton Street, Bond Street, W | ||
| Recipient: | Nevill, Dorothy Fanny | ||
| Address: | - | ||
| Date: | 1891, July, 19 | ||
| Document Type: | Letter | ||
| Content Summary: | There seem to be few records of Mrs Oldfield and he thought the old book a straggling affair; but in Doran and the dictionary Sir Drummond may find interesting material. Sir Drummond has probably studied Ellen Terry's Nance which Irving is sure excels the original. The stage has seldom seen such a harmonious and graceful work and he is sure Lady Dorothy agrees. He quotes a remark of [Thomas] Bailey Aldrich about Ellen Terry's sliding off the sofa. Aldrich, a delightful man, is coming to supper with them that night at the Lyceum. Can he persuade her and Miss Nevill to come too and bring Sir Drummond with them? It would be delightful if it were possible. | ||
| Published: | The reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill, 1906, p.318-19. | ||
| Notes: | Ellen Terry played the actress Anne Oldfield, 1683-1730, in the play 'Nance Oldfield' by Charles Reade at the Lyceum from 12th May 1891. Lady Dorothy's cousin Sir Henry Drummond Wolff was studying the career of Nance Oldfield. Irving probably refers to one of the 'Authentick Memoirs' published after Oldfield's death, and to John Doran's 'Their Majesties' Servants'. | ||
| Document Holder: | Pd | ||
| Ref.No: | 4675 | ||