| Author: |
Martin, Sir Theodore
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1816-1909 Private Secretary to Queen Victoria, husband of Helena Faucit |
| Address: |
31 Onslow Square, SW |
| Recipient: |
Irving, Sir Henry
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(John Henry Brodribb), 1838-1905 |
| Address: |
- |
| Date: |
1879, July, 4 |
| Document Type: |
Letter (4 p.) |
| Content Summary: |
He asks for a box for 'Charles I' the next Tuesday evening. He encloses a letter from Miss [Geraldine] Jewsbury the novelist and writer about the reading the day before. She has a fine sympathy with the drama though in delicate health with eye affliction. Mrs [Helena] Martin sends thanks for Irving's reading and support. |
| Published: |
- |
| Notes: |
A note says "Box 7 sent". |
| Document Holder: |
THM (Reference: THM/37/7/31) |
| Ref.No: |
2201 |
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| Author: |
Prud'hon, Charles François Joseph
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1845- French actor |
| Address: |
Londres [London] |
| Recipient: |
Irving, Sir Henry
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(John Henry Brodribb), 1838-1905 |
| Address: |
- |
| Date: |
1879, July, 4 |
| Document Type: |
Letter (1 p.) |
| Content Summary: |
Irving made him and his wife cry. |
| Published: |
- |
| Notes: |
In French. Possibly in 'Charles I'. The performance on 4th July was 'The Lyons Mail', if Prud'hon wrote the same night. |
| Document Holder: |
LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker) |
| Ref.No: |
5282 |
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| Author: |
Febvre, Frédéric
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1834- actor, of the Comédie Française |
| Address: |
[London] |
| Recipient: |
Irving, Sir Henry
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(John Henry Brodribb), 1838-1905 |
| Address: |
- |
| Date: |
[1879?] |
| Document Type: |
Letter (1 p.) |
| Content Summary: |
Thanks in advance for pleasure Irving will give that evening and next week. He has insufficient English to express his admiration, which will be shown by his applause. |
| Published: |
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| Notes: |
In French with typewritten translation. |
| Document Holder: |
THM (Reference: THM/37/7/9) |
| Ref.No: |
1348 |
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| Author: |
Long, Edwin Longsden
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1829-1891 artist, R.A. |
| Address: |
19 Marlborough Hill, N.W. |
| Recipient: |
Irving, Sir Henry
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(John Henry Brodribb), 1838-1905 |
| Address: |
- |
| Date: |
[1879], July, 6 Saturday |
| Document Type: |
Letter (2 p.) |
| Content Summary: |
When is Irving going to give the fourth sitting for 'Vanderdecken'? He would like to try the sketch the next week - not Tuesday - to begin it in about a fortnight. He wishes Irving could see 'Queen Esther' now she is finished - she departs early on Monday morning. |
| Published: |
- |
| Notes: |
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| Document Holder: |
THM (Reference: THM/37/7/28) |
| Ref.No: |
2115 |
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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, July, 7 |
| Document Type: |
Letter (2 p.) |
| Content Summary: |
She does not leave until Friday and will be able to see Hamlet again. She was anxious her last Lyceum night might be that - always more appreciated with Mrs Brown, who of course never saw Irving's own Hamlet. |
| Published: |
- |
| Notes: |
The Baroness and Mrs Brown saw Hamlet under the Bateman management more than 30 times, but Mrs Brown died before the Irving/Terry production opened. |
| Document Holder: |
THM (Reference: THM/37/7/8) |
| Ref.No: |
812 |
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