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Author: Brown, Hannah >>
Address: Selsdon
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1878, Sept., 19 
Document Type: Letter (16(?) p.)
Content Summary: His letter and papers came the day before, Thursday and were gratifying except for the hard work. They are busy as about 200 men, women & children are coming that day for a feast of meal and music. She names the Brigade guests who are coming to help with the sports, and describes their other activities. Mr Clough cuts up the newspapers quickly, and they like him better and better. Irving spoke of Mr Gladstone, and may like to read the enclosed. She mentions the dogs and in a postscript tells Irving to be beware of the great letter writer who preyed on the Baroness...
Published: -
Notes: Partly written by Baroness Burdett-Coutts and partly by Hannah Brown.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/7)
Ref.No: 689    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool (15A Grafton Street, Bond Street, W crossed out)
Recipient: Stoker, Bram (Abraham) >>
Address: 7 St Stephen's Green North, Dublin
Date: 1878, Sept., 19 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: Irving hopes to see Stoker on Sunday evening. He is to put that paragraph about Marshall's play about Robert Emmett which Marshall is writing for Irving, in his paper. It will do good. He is looking forward with pleasure to next week's meeting.
Published: -
Notes: Typewritten transcript in THM/37/1/18 possibly incomplete. Irving commissioned Frank Marshall to write the play in 1878-79 but it was eventually refused a licence by the Lord Chamberlain.
Document Holder: SCL (Reference: RL2/6/125)
Ref.No: 4085    
Author: Brown, Hannah >>
Address: Selsdon
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1878, Sept., 20 
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: Irving's letters are delightful and cheering - others think of Christmas too. She wishes she could be behind the president's chair for Irving's Saturday meeting with Macbeth... He would have enjoyed the previous day - a Harvest Homing! (in another hand). (Postscript) Irving would have well understood the quaint honest words of the very old to the very young - a Caleb Plummer of 92 singing a song of 15 verses...
Published: -
Notes: Written by Hannah Brown. Caleb Plummer is a character in 'Dot' dramatised from 'The Cricket on the Hearth'.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/7)
Ref.No: 690    
Author: Bateman, Sidney Frances >>
Address: 9 Albany Courtyard, Piccadilly
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: [1878], Sept., 21 
Document Type: Letter (8 p.)
Content Summary: She has bought the lease of Sadler's Wells, the contract signed on Wednesday, and intends to work it as a country theatre, with low prices, pantomime, stars or other companies. She describes the progress of the building, the financing, term of their lease and her plans. She will move house. The family are all well. She is glad Irving is going splendidly and hopes he is not tired and will wrap up. All about her business affairs is confidential. (Postcript:) She sends the enclosed, by the man who did the Shakespeare, and asks Irving to return it as it is her souvenir of the past.
Published: L. Irving, p.305-06 (not quite complete).
Notes: The souvenir - possibly a portrait - is unidentified.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/1/18)
Ref.No: 323    
Author: Irving, Henry Brodribb “Harry” >>
Address: 10 Gilston Road
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: [1878?], Sept., 22 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: Their father wanted to know the names of their favourite school-fellows which are Edgar and Hugo. He enjoyed seeing 'Hamlet' at Leicester.
Published: -
Notes: The Lyceum Company toured to Leicester in August 1878, and the paper is watermarked 1878. The letter is not signed and was probably not sent.
Document Holder: BTC (Reference: 2007/0037)
Ref.No: 8969    
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