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Author: Blackie, John Stuart >>
Address: 24 Hill Street [Edinburgh]
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: [1878?], Oct., 28 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: They will come to see "the wicked old king" [Louis XI] on Thursday. Wicked people are tolerable only on the stage. His wife has a nervous complaint. He encloses a sermon (not present).
Published: -
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Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/17)
Ref.No: 456    
Author: Brown, Hannah >>
Address: Selsdon
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1878, Oct., 29-31 
Document Type: Letter (12 p.)
Content Summary: She welcomes Irving home and remembers the pleasant time with Mr St John the previous year. She thanks him for the posy and refers to Trin and the Sabbath Eve verses. [31st Oct.] As she said in the previous day's telegram don't take the other dog. Collies have uncertain temper and would be miserable in London. The Baroness takes over the letter to warn him against such a dog from her own experience. Mrs Brown is better but not well. [Dictation] Irving's & Mr St John's letters arrived together. St John says that when back in England he dreams of going on a whole provincial tour with Irving. She speaks of other friends and visitors including Mr Barnes who was struck with the Sabbath Eve. She hopes Irving will see the enthusiastic Mr Brodie.
Published: -
Notes: P.1-3 written by Mrs Brown with interpretations, the rest dictated to Baroness Burdett-Coutts. "Home" possibly refers to Edinburgh.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/7)
Ref.No: 698    
Author: Brown, Hannah >>
Address: Selsdon
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1878, Nov., 1 
Document Type: Letter (9 p.)
Content Summary: They received his letter at dinner... Glad to hear of his pleasant drive. They saw a pleasant notice in the Morning Post and other papers of Irving's lecture read at Social Science. She encloses Mr H's and Mrs Jacobs' letters of which she asks him to take care. May she keep Blackie's verses which have a rough grandeur. What an escape in Irving's accident on leaving Dundee. She hopes to hear how they like Jingle. They feared the Bank business might have affected Irving. The papers compare the Drury Lane Hamlet unfavourably to his. They think of leaving in a fortnight as people are beginning to moan....
Published: -
Notes: P.1-3 written by Hannah Brown, the rest dictated to Baroness Burdett-Coutts. In a paper at the Social Science Congress in Glasgow in October Irving gave his views on a National Theatre. The drafts of the lecture are preserved at the Shakespeare Centre Library and Archive, RL2/9/2. He also gave two readings in aid of those hurt by the failure of the City of Glasgow Bank. The Dundee mishap does not seem to be recorded.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/7)
Ref.No: 699    
Author: Brown, Hannah >>
Address: Selsdon
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1878, Nov., 2 
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: "O my prophetic soul." They have always thought that creature no friend of Irving's and she feels it as a woman. Greetings to Edinburgh. (Postscript) Irving took the right decision about the dog. Enclosure returned and good riddance.
Published: -
Notes: Written by Hannah Brown with the postscript dictated to Baroness Burdett-Coutts. The letter refers to hostile criticism.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/7)
Ref.No: 700    
Author: Reid, Thomas Mayne >>
Address: Frogmore House (Nr) Ross, Herefordshire
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1878, Nov., 2 
Document Type: Letter (6 p.)
Content Summary: An enclosed sheet [not present] suggests some connection between them. If this is possible he has been contemplating dramatising several of his novels himself. Several have been crudely staged e.g. 'The Octaroon' by Boucicault, which is Reid's 'Quadroon'. They have good plots and characters and he thinks he can frame them as acting plays not sensational rubbish. There are characters worthy of representation by Irving. Their tone will be pure and picturesque and have sufficient interest to drive indecent drama from the stage which he knows is Irving's object. His pen is at Irving's service.
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Notes: Marked 'A' - answered?
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/36)
Ref.No: 3793    
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