Sir Henry Irving (Actor); Jean Mounet-Sully (Actor)
Theme
Famous Companies
Places
New York (N.Y.)
Item description
Handwritten letter from Sir Henry Irving (1838-1905) to Jean Mounet-Sully on Mar. 17th, 1894. Irving invites Mounet-Sully to dine at Delmonico's with him and some friends on the 19th at half past seven o'clock. The letter is written on Hotel Vendome stationery in Boston and is signed by Irving.
Object narrative
Henry Irving's handwritten note on the official stationery of C.H. & Co., which owned the Hotel Vendome in Boston and Profile House, White Mts., New Hampshire. This note was written four days before The Lyceum Company left the United States to return to England after their Fourth American Tour. Irving was just wrapping up the tour in Boston, having the company's last performance of the tour on the date of the letter, and was returning to New York for a few days before departure. On the 15th of March, he had given an address at Harvard on Individuality. The dinner at Delmonico's was a farewell dinner that was in fact attended by Mounet-Sully (a famous French actor), as well as other New York dignitaries (Brereton 189, vol. 2). According to a NY Times article dated March 20, 1894, Mounet-Sully arrived in New York via a French liner on March 19th for an engagement at the Abbey Theatre. The text of the letter is as follows:
Plaza Hotel
New York
17th March 1894
My kind friend Mounet-Sully
Greeting & Salutations and love -
I have some friends dining with me at Delmonico's on Monday Evening the 19th at half past seven o'clock.
I hope with all my heart wish [?] you can come for there are many I would like to know you.
Ever yours
Henry
Irving
Type
Text
Original format
Correspondence
Original publisher
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
[Identification of item], Robert C. Hansen Performing Arts Collection, 1753-2006 (MSS255), Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives and Manuscripts, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC, USA.
NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determing actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
Object ID
MSS255.B79.003
Digital publisher
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304
