| Author: |
Daly, Augustin (John Augustin)
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1838-1899 impresario |
| Address: |
- |
| Recipient: |
Irving, Sir Henry
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(John Henry Brodribb), 1838-1905 |
| Address: |
- |
| Date: |
1879, March, 14 |
| Document Type: |
Letter |
| Content Summary: |
Terms for a tour in September/November 1880. 'Charles I' & 'Hamlet' with half gross profit not under £100. Ellen Terry £100 per week. 13 weeks - 7 in North East USA: Boston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago, St Louis or Washington. |
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| Notes: |
The tour did not take place. |
| Document Holder: |
FSL (Reference: MS Y.c.4173) |
| Ref.No: |
5883 |
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| Author: |
Marryat, Florence
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Mrs Thomas Church, later Mrs Francis Lean,
1833-1899 actress, playwright, novelist |
| Address: |
Ormesby Villa, 88 Boundary Road, St John's Wood, N.W. |
| Recipient: |
Irving, Sir Henry
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(John Henry Brodribb), 1838-1905 |
| Address: |
- |
| Date: |
1879, March, 16 |
| Document Type: |
Letter (9 p.) |
| Content Summary: |
They have met, but to remind him she sends photograph. She is known to be connected to literature and also has worked as Reader and Entertainer. She would like half an hour's conversation as she has dramatic talent and would like to seek a stage career especially in Shakespearean parts - her voice and figure are suited for the heavy lead. She does not want to risk her reputation as a novelist and would only act with a man of standing like Irving. She had refused an offer to tour in the provinces, but the fact that her compère George Grossmith and Helen Barry have succeeded without experience and her amateur success suggest she asks an interview with Irving. |
| Published: |
- |
| Notes: |
Headed: Private. |
| Document Holder: |
THM (Reference: THM/37/7/30) |
| Ref.No: |
2105 |
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| Author: |
Irving, Sir Henry
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(John Henry Brodribb),
1838-1905 |
| Address: |
15A, Grafton Street, Bond Street, W. |
| Recipient: |
Tennyson, Hallam
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2nd Baron Tennyson, 1852-1928 |
| Address: |
72, Eaton Place, Eaton Square |
| Date: |
1879, March, 18 |
| Document Type: |
Letter (2 p.) |
| Content Summary: |
Asks Hallam Tennyson to make the appointment for the reading on Sunday at 3pm if that suits his father. Irving finds it difficult to spare a day from rehearsals, which he has recommenced. |
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| Notes: |
With stamped envelope. Probably rehearsals for 'The Lady of Lyons' produced on 17th April 1879. A reading of 'The Cup' or 'The Falcon'?
By courtesy of the Tennyson Research Centre, Lincolnshire County Council.
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| Document Holder: |
TRC (Reference: 3792) |
| Ref.No: |
5513 |
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| Author: |
Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts
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Baroness,
1814-1906 friend, philanthropist, m.1881 William Lehman Ashmead-Bartlett, who took the name Burdett-Coutts |
| Address: |
S. St [Stratton Street] |
| Recipient: |
Irving, Sir Henry
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(John Henry Brodribb), 1838-1905 |
| Address: |
- |
| Date: |
1879, March, 19 |
| Document Type: |
Letter (3 p.) |
| Content Summary: |
She apologises for not being found especially as she wished to invite him for the next Thursday evening. He can tell her if he calls the next day. Their good friend the Professor [James Tennant?] is slowly getting better and she is sending champagne and grapes. (Postscript) Mr Clough has given her the tickets and she apologises for causing so much trouble. |
| Published: |
- |
| Notes: |
These may be the tickets for the Drury Lane Benefit, see letter No.777. |
| Document Holder: |
THM (Reference: THM/37/7/8) |
| Ref.No: |
779 |
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| Author: |
Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts
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Baroness,
1814-1906 friend, philanthropist, m.1881 William Lehman Ashmead-Bartlett, who took the name Burdett-Coutts |
| Address: |
Stratton St |
| Recipient: |
Irving, Sir Henry
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(John Henry Brodribb), 1838-1905 |
| Address: |
- |
| Date: |
1879, March, 24 |
| Document Type: |
Letter (4 p.) |
| Content Summary: |
It is cold, and if Irving thinks of the Children's Hour she is occupied for the next two days with committees and early dinner. She has read the play and praises its poetry and dramatic feeling with appropriate female parts. Whichever part Irving took would be a magnificent historic portrait, but would the public care? She doubts it, as the only feeling to excite is religious, which might not satisfy those who find belief in the poetry of Hamlet, or appeal to modern sympathies. |
| Published: |
- |
| Notes: |
The Children's Hour was Hannah Brown's name for the time between 5 and 6 pm when Irving often called in at Stratton Street. The play was Tennyson's 'Becket' which had been finished in 1879 and was announced for production from the stage of the Lyceum as 'Eleanor and Rosamund' at about this time. |
| Document Holder: |
THM (Reference: THM/37/7/8) |
| Ref.No: |
780 |
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