Sir Henry Irving: An Appreciation by Bram Stoker, His Longtime Friend (1904)

Abstract

In “The Manchester Guardian” for October 28 there appeared the following appreciation of Sir Henry Irving by Bram Stoker, long associated with him: To-day Sir Henry Irving will be presented with an address by the citizens of Sunderland, to which place he has returned to play an engagement after an interval of nearly half a century. Forty-eight years ago, when a youth of eighteen, Henry Irving made his first appearance as an actor on the boards of the old Sunderland Theatre. His second and last visit is made this week, and his coming is treated as a civic event. Not merely as a player does he come, but as one who has won distinction, not only for himself, but for his chosen art, and, in its own way, for his nation.

This article is reprinted from the New-York Daily Tribune (November 20, 1904): 3.