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Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: Lyceum Theatre
Recipient: Not known >>
Address: -
Date: 1895, May, 21 
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: He will be glad to have a copy of the book offered. He is sorry no seats could be sent for Monday, but hopes the enclosed for Saturday will suit him.
Published: -
Notes: Written by Louis Austin and signed by Irving. It seems likely that this letter is to John William Jarvis, who several times offers books.
Document Holder: MOL (Reference: Irving Collection. Letters/Cuttings)
Ref.No: 7371    
Author: Jerome, Jerome Klapka >>
Address: 7 Alpha Place, Regent's Park
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: [London]
Date: [1895], [May], [21?] 
Document Type: Letter (3 p.)
Content Summary: Thanks for the trouble taken for Miss Ashwell on Saturday. He apologises for pressing Irving but is worried about his matinees on 30th May and 1st June. Her play is a success and matinees are good business at the Comedy. He wants to give one on 25th to earn £100 and Thursday would lose another £100. If Irving could spare her after the next Wednesday he would be grateful as there are only a few weeks before the summer.
Published: -
Notes: Irving replied 21/5/95. Jerome's play 'The Prude's Progress' opened at the Comedy Theatre on 22nd May after its premier in Cambridge on 10th and ran at Terry's theatre until September. See Letter 1475.
Document Holder: LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker)
Ref.No: 7778    
Author: Austin, Louis Frederick >>
Address: Lyceum Theatre
Recipient: Not known >>
Address: -
Date: 1895, May, 23 
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: From Mr Henry Irving. Will he deliver the Kemble figure there for Mr Irving's inspection at one o'clock on Tuesday.
Published: C. Sutherland, Catalogue 132, item 322.
Notes:
Document Holder: Pd
Ref.No: 4699    
Author: Davis, Richard Harding >>
Address: 89, Jermyn Street, SW
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: [1895?], May, 23 
Document Type: Letter (3 p.)
Content Summary: Inviting Irving to a lunch for William Gillette - best playwright in America and first of new school of actors. Anthony Hope has spoken of dilemma of asking a favour of Irving knowing he would not refuse. The luncheon is Thursday next at the Savoy on the terrace at 1o/c. Others Irving knows will probably be there.
Published: -
Notes: Gillette's play 'Secret Service' opened in London in May 1895.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/23)
Ref.No: 789    
Author: Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan >>
Address: The Grosvenor Hotel, Victoria Station, Belgravia, London, S.W.
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: [1895], [May], [23] 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: Mr Parkinson told him Irving intended to ask him to supper at Lyceum. He is sorry he has to leave England, which will prevent him from meeting Irving. Would Irving be interested in a new play in two long acts - useful to allow a one act piece like 'Waterloo' without the fatigue of one of the great pieces after it. It would be a great strain to do 'Waterloo' and 'Richelieu' or 'Hamlet' in one night. He proposes a play centred round Louis XIV founded on the Court Chapters of his novel 'The Refugees': Louis between Mesdames de Montespan & de Maintenon would be fine character for Irving. Irving may however already have plays. (Postscript:) His address is now Belvidere Hotel, Davos Platz.
Published: -
Notes: Note at head: And - send rough suggestion and I'll consider it. HI. 23/5/95. See also Letter 7178. Nothing came of the proposal. Summarised by courtesy of the Conan Doyle Estate Ltd.
Document Holder: SCL (Reference: RL2/6/390)
Ref.No: 6658    
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