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Author: Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts >>
Address: S-- St [Stratton Street]
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1879, Nov., 2 
Document Type: Letter (3 p.)
Content Summary: She is just starting but he understands the Ships Company will be at The Rialto the next day and would wish to give the cheer the Walruses wanted to give but did not know how to manage. She is so sorry to part from these rough folk with their tender hearts. Irving will be pleased to know her servants were charmed with 'Iron Chest'.
Published: -
Notes: 'The Merchant of Venice' opened on 1st November. This presumably refers to the crew of the Walrus.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/8)
Ref.No: 826    
Author: Fitzgerald, Percy Hetherington >>
Address: 37, St.George's Road, Eccleston Square, SW
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: [1879?] 
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: Great praise of Irving's Shylock. He looked like a Titian portrait. Finest scene with Bassanio in 3rd Act especially gestures with stick. Ellen Terry charming - what a dress! Barnes should soften down. Never saw such scenery in Paris or anywhere else. A thousand thanks for ticket.
Published: -
Notes: 'The Merchant of Venice' opened at the Lyceum on 1st November 1879.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/24)
Ref.No: 1413    
Author: Long, Edwin Longsden >>
Address: 19 Marlborough Hill, N.W.
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1879, Nov., 2 
Document Type: Letter (1 p.)
Content Summary: Shylock was magnificent, a great conception - the figure at the trial haunted him. It reminded him of a Velasquez seen in Madrid. Hearty congratulations.
Published: -
Notes: 'The Merchant of Venice' opened on 1st November.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/28)
Ref.No: 2139    
Author: Pollock, Juliet >>
Address: -
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1879, [Nov.], [2?] 
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: A very enthusiastic letter praising Irving's Shylock and Ellen Terry's Portia who was joyous and yet noble and surpassed herself except in the speech to Bassanio. It was too late to shake hands with Irving and embrace Portia but they will soon come again and come round to greet them. P.S. Thanks for the Box, delicious in its seclusion.
Published: -
Notes: Henry James and John Ruskin also criticised Ellen Terry's speech 'You see me, Lord Bassanio, where I stand...'
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/1/19)
Ref.No: 2528    
Author: Pollock, Sir William Frederick >>
Address: 59, Montagu Square, W.
Recipient: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Date: 1879, Nov., 2 
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: Thanks Irving for previous night -never was there such beauty of scenery and costume. He thinks he understands Irving's Shylock - the last scene very fine but suggests more intensity and tenderness in earlier parts. More light and shade but apologises for criticising a first night. Portia charming as before. Her increased happiness in life seems to show in the gaiety and buoyancy of her acting. Barnes disappoints him - capital in 'The Iron Chest' but too heavy as Bassanio. He commends Gratiano and Lorenzo.
Published: L.Irving, p.344-45.
Notes: First night of 'The Merchant of Venice' 1st November 1879.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/1/19)
Ref.No: 2655    
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