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Author: Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts >>
Address: Rennes, Hotel de France
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1879, Oct., 2 
Document Type: Letter
Content Summary: It was a great relief to get at St Malo on Tuesday English papers with accounts of 'The Iron Chest'. Members of the party on board drank to Irving's success. The Walrus is at Havre where she hopes to hear news of Irving. She relates how the Walrus was driven on to a reef in Jersey and slightly holed. They made for Cherbourg and a gale set in as they crossed. Irving's outside bed mattress and other furniture were thrown about, also the passengers...The disaster changed everything and they had to go to St Malo by road - difficult for trains, letters & telegrams. The last they heard of Irving was a telegram at Cherbourg to Mr Bartlett. She wishes Irving had been with them. In Rennes she describes the scene and is reminded of past visits - Irving will feel how these picture a life never before without one dear little figure (Hannah Brown).
Published: C.B. Patterson, Angela Burdett Coutts, p.197-99.
Notes: Not in the Theatre Museum sequence.
Document Holder: Pd
Ref.No: 820    
Author: Lewis, Kate >>
Address: Moray Lodge, Campden Hill, Kensington
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1879, Oct., 2 
Document Type: Letter (3 p.)
Content Summary: She welcomes his coming to them on 19th. Thanks for Monday. Thay had not taken places as unsure whether Floss(?) [Florence Terry] could go. She hopes there is room.
Published: -
Notes: Possibly in Irving's hand at foot of p.3 Mrs Arthur Lewis Monday No.7. Also Box 7 for Monday Oct.6 sent 3/10/79.
Document Holder: LDS (Reference: BC MS 19c Stoker)
Ref.No: 5195    
Author: Burnand, Sir Francis Cowley >>
Address: 64, Russell Square, W.C.
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1879, Oct., 3 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: He asks for a box for John Tenniel, himself and his wife to see 'The Iron Chest' the next Tuesday night. (Postscript:) He is anxious about Irving's Shylock. He and his wife would like to come to the first night, and thinks they should not have stalls, so he asks for private tip of the date so he can reserve seats with the acting manager.
Published: -
Notes: September is crossed out in the date. Burnand would normally have received a stall as a press critic and first night seats were often distributed rather than sold. Burnand does not refer to Bram Stoker by name. The first night of 'The Merchant of Venice' was on 1st November 1879.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/19)
Ref.No: 8691    
Author: Long, Edwin Longsden >>
Address: Weeting Hall, Brandon, Norfolk
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1879, Oct., 3 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: Sorry he was not in when Irving called. He is back on Tuesday and will look up the Venetian sketch to send down. He is not going away again and will be glad to go on with Vanderdecken. What a game about the 'Walrus' - he hopes the Baroness wasn't frightened. He is longing to see 'The Iron Chest' and thanks for the offer of a box - he will come one day the next week.
Published: -
Notes: Long had been one of the party on Baroness Burdett-Coutts' yacht the Walrus in the Mediterranean, which later had run on to rocks in the Channel Isles and ridden through a storm. The Venetian sketch would be a source for 'The Merchant of Venice'. See also Letter 2117.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/28)
Ref.No: 2116    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: 15A Grafton Street, Bond Street, W
Recipient: Burnand, Sir Francis Cowley >>
Address: -
Date: 1879, Oct., 6 
Document Type: Letter (2 p.)
Content Summary: He is glad Burnand is coming to the 'Iron Chest'. Some of it is delightful... Perhaps Tenniel and he will call behind afterwards. Burnand is booked for the first night of the 'Merchant' which is a bargain. It will be in about 5 or 6 weeks if all goes well.
Published: -
Notes: 'The Iron Chest' had opened on 27th September, and 'The Merchant of Venice' opened on 1st November. The letter also refers to the first Tooles. A typewritten transcript is at THM/37/1/19.
Document Holder: DUL (Reference: Add. Ms. 832/2)
Ref.No: 1003    
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