| Author: |
Greville, Sabine Matilda
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née Thellusson, Mrs Richard,
1823-1882 friend |
| Address: |
The Cottage, Milford, Godalming |
| Recipient: |
Irving, Sir Henry
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(John Henry Brodribb), 1838-1905 |
| Address: |
- |
| Date: |
[1875], [Oct.?], 5 Tuesday |
| Document Type: |
Letter (4 p.) |
| Content Summary: |
Irving's copy is too precious to meddle with and she will return it by the next post. She longs to see the play again. Dighton [Probyn] goes on Saturday. She wonders if any other couple will feel the separation of the Indian expedition so acutely. She has promised to go the next month to Loton to act in a comedy Sir Baldwyn [Leighton] has adapted from a novel by Whyte Melville. Is Irving coming there on Sunday? His royal robe is not thick enough; could he not get a blanket dyed scarlet? She hopes the Duc de Morniers(?), a respected judge who cares for acting, will go soon, as his appreciation will settle Irving's European reputation. |
| Published: |
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| Notes: |
Mrs Greville still discusses 'Macbeth'. Sir Dighton Probyn was her brother-in-law and first cousin. Leighton's play 'Day Dreams' was performed on 5th November, see later letters. |
| Document Holder: |
THM (Reference: THM/37/1/15) |
| Ref.No: |
1233 |
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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: |
Meller, Ida
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Miss, young friend, later a journalist |
| Address: |
Elm Cottage, Lower Norwood |
| Date: |
1875, Oct., 5 |
| Document Type: |
Letter (1 p.) |
| Content Summary: |
He thanks her for her kind letter. He has the greatest pleasure in granting so trifling a favour. |
| Published: |
- |
| Notes: |
With stamped envelope, addressed in another hand, postmark dated 6th October. With another similar empty envelope postmarked 18th December 1877 which may have contained a Christmas card.
With a stamped addressed envelope postmarked 6th October.
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| Document Holder: |
THM (Reference: THM/14/9/8(4)) |
| Ref.No: |
2637 |
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| Author: |
Greville, Sabine Matilda
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née Thellusson, Mrs Richard,
1823-1882 friend |
| Address: |
- |
| Recipient: |
Irving, Sir Henry
>>
(John Henry Brodribb), 1838-1905 |
| Address: |
- |
| Date: |
[1875?], [Oct.?] |
| Document Type: |
Letter (2+4 p.) |
| Content Summary: |
She is angry that the Wales went to a farce instead of 'Macbeth'. Irving was unkind about her Hamlet letters - promise her he will burn this one. She is disposed to like Mrs Crowe and would not want her to know she had criticised her. (Postscript) She will have more to write about Tuesday, but suggests more light and sarcastic expression for two phrases. She has only written to two potentates since 'Macbeth': Delane, and Thomas Taylor, who has not written. She discusses Mrs Crowe, Sarah Siddons and Mrs Pritchard, and thinks women's acting is a question of nervous temperament. She remarks about recent Shakespeare discoveries. |
| Published: |
- |
| Notes: |
The final four pages are unaddressed and unsigned so almost certainly continue the postscript of the first two. |
| Document Holder: |
THM (Reference: THM/37/1/15) |
| Ref.No: |
1234 |
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| Author: |
Yates, Edmund Hodgson
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1831-1894 actor, journalist, novelist, dramatist |
| Address: |
Lion Mansion, Brighton |
| Recipient: |
Irving, Sir Henry
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(John Henry Brodribb), 1838-1905 |
| Address: |
- |
| Date: |
1875, Oct., 6 |
| Document Type: |
Letter (2 p.) |
| Content Summary: |
Yates wants Irving to understand that he will feel less pain over the criticism in 'The World' [of Irving's Macbeth] than Yates had in writing it. He hopes to be as just as he can and not give praise against his judgment. So Irving may see that there are two sides to every question he encloses note from his old friend, W.H.Wills, for 25 years Dickens' partner and co-editor, who would not say what he did not mean. Send it back once read. United kind regards. |
| Published: |
L. Irving, p.263 in full. |
| Notes: |
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| Document Holder: |
THM (Reference: THM/37/1/15) |
| Ref.No: |
4449 |
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| Author: |
Greville, Sabine Matilda
>>
née Thellusson, Mrs Richard,
1823-1882 friend |
| Address: |
The Cottage, Milford, Godalming |
| Recipient: |
Irving, Sir Henry
>>
(John Henry Brodribb), 1838-1905 |
| Address: |
- |
| Date: |
[1875], [Oct.?], 7 Thursday |
| Document Type: |
Letter (4 p.) |
| Content Summary: |
She teases Irving that he has attracted her friend Leonora and mentions the latter's husband Alfred. As a friend she makes further suggestions about 'Macbeth'; she hopes to help with 'Othello' but leaves 'Philip' to Irving. She criticises Mrs Crowe again, praising her enunciation, but saying she has only the capacity for domestic drama, not an epic poem. |
| Published: |
- |
| Notes: |
'Othello' was to be performed in 1876; Philip is Irving's role as Philip of Spain in 'Queen Mary'. Mrs Crowe is criticised as Lady Macbeth. |
| Document Holder: |
THM (Reference: THM/37/1/15) |
| Ref.No: |
1235 |
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