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Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Recipient: Irving, Florence >>
Address: -
Date: [1866?], Dec., 24 Christmas eve
Document Type: Letter
Content Summary: He now believes in fairies and has met the "Queene". She has brought him great pleasure, and her words will be a future balm. Full sincerity may be mistaken for flattery and misconstrued. He sends his respect in a few lines of doggerel by Entwistle.
Published: -
Notes: Typewritten transcript.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/1/8)
Ref.No: 1768    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: 8, Old Quebec St
Recipient: Irving, Florence >>
Address: -
Date: [1866], Dec., 28 Friday
Document Type: Letter
Content Summary: He and Clementina [Clement Scott] spent some delightful hours on a fascinating topic. Their thoughts possess "unanimity". He had read her [words?] alluding to a "young man named Irving" long before she felt able to forward them. Scott intends to try other prairies, so don't be surprised if he is cold... He is sorry he sends the stalls so late and hopes she can use them. "Everybody" will be with them so there should be a little additional excitement. He thanks her for her many expressions of kindness.
Published: -
Notes: Typewritten transcript. The play is probably 'Hunted Down' at the St James's Theatre.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/1/8)
Ref.No: 1769    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Recipient: Brodribb, Samuel >>
Address: -
Date: 1867, Jan., 28 
Document Type: Letter (4 p.)
Content Summary: He will send £2 on Saturday. He has had heavy calls that week. He sends another batch of papers - good. His part is a great hit and talked about everywhere. His bill is the best in London, and business is good. A friend of his father's called Robinson called at the stage door a few days previously and he remembered visiting his daughters in Holborn... He has been to parties at C. Mathew's, Toole's, Howard Paul's, Bancroft's who has at last announced his marriage. He has no engagement or prospect whatever of marriage. He hopes to hear from his father - love to his aunts and uncle.
Published: -
Notes: The part is Rawdon Scudamore in Dion Boucicault's 'Hunted Down' at the St James's Theatre. With a typewritten transcript in THM/37/1/7, with also a small typed note quoting one review.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/7/3)
Ref.No: 502    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Recipient: Irving, Florence >>
Address: -
Date: [1867], [Feb.?] Saturday
Document Type: Letter
Content Summary: An expression of gratitude for her compliments in enthusiastic terms, and with 4 stanzas of verse, supposedly after C.W.S. [Clement Scott].
Published: -
Notes: Typewritten transcript. Possibly with a Valentine card?
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/1/8)
Ref.No: 1770    
Author: Irving, Sir Henry >>
Address: -
Recipient: Irving, Florence >>
Address: -
Date: 1867, [Feb.] Friday evening
Document Type: Letter
Content Summary: On Sunday he is committed to spending the evening with a cleric and his blue-stocking wife. He regrets it is he who has to pass the invitation to Clement Scott. Nothing will stop him from seeing her, if only to say good night. He refers to a secret, and regrets that Mrs Frank's information is faulty. He will play the lout the O'Hooligan. His vanity says it will cause him difficulties. He had an interview with Fechter who offered an engagement, but he declined for weighty reasons he will tell her later.
Published: L. Irving, p.136-37 (with omissions).
Notes: Typewritten transcript. Mrs Frank may be Mrs Frank Matthews, or possibly Mrs Frank Marshall. The new play was 'The Rapid Thaw'.
Document Holder: THM (Reference: THM/37/1/9)
Ref.No: 1772    
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