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Author: Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts >>
Address: [Stratton Street]
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1879, April, 13 [No.1]
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: If a dreadful night they might go to evening service at St Stephens which would be warmer. The same time: 20 past 6. It will have pretty flowers and the children sing well. Can settle which Church when he comes.
Published: -
Notes: Unsigned. The proposed visit to St Paul's Cathedral is the alternative, see Letter No.793 instead of St Stephen's Westminster. This may have been sent with Letter 770.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/8)
Ref.No: 805    
Author: Bellew, Kyrle (Harold Kyrle) >>
Address: Lyceum Theatre
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: [Lyceum Theatre]
Date: [1879], [April], [14?] 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: Irving may remember his little sister Clare who is in town for a few days and asks to see 'Hamlet'. His first request asks for 2 seats for the next Wednesday as the play is coming off.
Published: -
Notes: Box sent BS 15/4/79. See also Letter 5098.
Document Holder: LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker)
Ref.No: 5096    
Author: Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts >>
Address:
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: [1879], [April], [13] [No.2]
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: A troubled unaddressed note announcing the death the day before of her former partner (in Coutts & Co., Edward Marjoribanks junior) about whom Irving had been worried 18 months previously. She reflects on the past and an aim recorded in an old pocket book, which Irving might do, if he still possessed his book.
Published: -
Notes: Unsigned. She refers to Irving as "a certain B - B (Brave Boy)". Edward Marjoribanks, who died on 12th April had lost money due to unwise speculation, and had had to resign his directorship of the Bank. This may have been sent with Letter 805.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/8)
Ref.No: 770    
Author: Taylor, Tom >>
Address: Lavender Sweep, Wandsworth
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: [London]
Date: [1879], April, 15 
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: He asks for stalls or seats for himself and his wife for the first night on 'The Lady of Lyons'.
Published: -
Notes: Receipt stamp 16 April but 2 stalls 15/4/79. On 16th Taylor wrote to Stoker thanking Irving for the stalls.
Document Holder: LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker)
Ref.No: 5360    
Author: Bellew, Ida Percy Clara >>
Address: 3 Bloomfield Terrace, Ebury Street
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1879, April, 18 Friday
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: Thanks for great treat when totally enthralled by performance. Her father although hard to please would have enjoyed 'Hamlet'. She thanks Irving for employing Harold [Kyrle Bellew] who has much to learn but she hopes will become a good actor. She is now in country for a long time and tentatively asks to see 'The Lady of Lyons', wishing continued success to the Lyceum.
Published: -
Notes: 2 Dress Circle seats were sent for 25th. She had seen 'Hamlet' on 15th or 16th. Irving had been friendly with her father J.C.M. Bellew.
Document Holder: LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker)
Ref.No: 5098    
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