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Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Recipient: Irving, Florence >>
Address: -
Date: [1869?], [July?] 
Document Type: Letter
Content Summary: He has had a pretty present of a picture to adorn their drawing room. At a print sellers there whom he knows he was greatly admiring an oleograph and at night he found it awaiting him at the stage door with his friends compliments. The subject is love and two lovers are kissing. It is the most graceful and charming thing he has seen for a long time and if anyone tells him they don't like it, his estimation of their taste will fall.
Published: -
Notes: Typewritten transcript. It is not clear whether the present was from the print seller or other friends.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/1/9)
Ref.No: 1807    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Recipient: Lowne, Edward Yates >>
Address: -
Date: 1869, Dec., 1 
Document Type: Letter
Content Summary: Lowne will be pleased to send Irving 6 shillings. Irving can spare him the booking and the postage stamps. Did he see 'Wat Tyler' the previous night - much too long. He is going out to dinner that night - the anniversary of the opening of the Gaiety.
Published: -
Notes: Incomplete. The play is G.A. Sala's burlesque 'Wat Tyler, MP'. The Gaiety Theatre opened in December 1868.
Document Holder: RRL (Reference: Theatre Manuscript Collection)
Ref.No: 5583    
Author: Yates, Edmund Hodgson >>
Address: Lancaster Lodge, Lancaster Gate, W.
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1870, April, 15 Good Friday
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: Thinks Irving would like to know he was dining with Charles Dickens the other day and he spoke highly of Irving's performance in 'Uncle Dick's Darling'. He was especially struck by Irving's earnestness and his never forgetting to elaborate even by small detail his study of the character. He said too, more than once, that Irving reminded him of Yates' father, and Yates knows that Dickens meant that as high praise.
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Notes: Dickens died in June 1870. 'Uncle Dick's Darling' opened 13st December 1869 at the Gaiety and Irving played Reginald Chevenix. Edmund Yates' father was the actor Frederick Yates.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/1/10)
Ref.No: 4440    
Author: Albery, James >>
Address: -
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: [1870], [April?] 
Document Type: Letter
Content Summary: ... Irving doesn't know him but if he would like to read his play come to the Edinburgh Tavern in the Strand at about 6 o'clock the next Wednesday. He will recognise him in the second compartment with a large glass of hot rum containing a sugar crusher.
Published: H. Chance Newton, Cues and curtain calls, 1927, p.20.
Notes: Laurence Irving and Newton give slightly different accounts of Albery offering Irving the play 'Two Roses' with the character of Digby Grant specially written for him. It was staged at the Vaudeville Theatre from 4th June.
Document Holder: Pd
Ref.No: 4641    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Recipient: Lowne, Edward Yates >>
Address: -
Date: 1870 
Document Type: Letter
Content Summary: What does the enclosed bill mean? Irving heard in Bow Street that Lowne was acting with Toole and had suppressed the idiotic addenda to his name. A similar bill is posted in 'The Bells'. Irving describes a controversial encounter there with a member of "The Enterprise" (Ryder?) and a quarrel about Macready. He warns Lowne in case he hears a garbled version. Look Irving up there one night.
Published: -
Notes: Presumably written during Irving's Vaudeville season. 'The Bells' is a public house. Lowne was devoted to Macready and compiled a large collection relating to his career which was later bought by Irving.
Document Holder: RRL (Reference: Theatre Manuscript Collection)
Ref.No: 5584    
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