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Collection Area Western Manuscripts Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 52929-53708

1261. Add MS 52972 P

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'The life and death of a drunkard', temperance drama in three acts by John Tyrer. Licence sent 12 March 1858 for performance at the Rechabites Hall, Blackburn 13 March 1858. Cover signed John Tyrer. Text written in an exercise book and in alternating red and black inks. Songs included in MS...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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12 Mar 1858
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1 item

1262. Add MS 52972 Q

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'First day upon trial', farce in one act. Licence sent 16 March 1858 for performance that day at the Standard. Addressed on back cover to 'Mr Smith, 91 Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square'. Keywords: working women, working class characters, poverty, servants, family relationships, widows, food ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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16 Mar 1858
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1 item

1263. Add MS 52972 R

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'Fra Diavolo! or, The beauty and the brigands', 'a new and original burlesque burletta, founded on a passage in the life of a certain Old Gentleman's Brother', burlesque in one act by H. J. Byron, the music by Auber 'and a few others'. Licence sent 19 March 1858 for performance at the Strand 5...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
19 Mar 1858
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1 item

1264. Add MS 52972 S

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'The farmer of Lyons', drama in two acts. Licence sent 25 March 1858 for performance at the Surrey 5 April 1858. Cover signed Messrs Bears names of Messrs Shepherd and Creswick. Keywords: land and farming, peasants, French influence, prisons and prisoners, execution. ff. 19.
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
25 Mar 1858
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1 item

1265. Add MS 52972 T

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Index ff. 1.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1858
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1 item

1266. Add MS 52973 A

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'A doubtful victory', comedietta in one act by John Oxenford. Licence sent 25 March 1858 for performance at the Olympic. Actors' initials listed alongside dramatis personae. Published in Lacy's, vol. 36, no. 531. Keywords: land and farming, military, family relationships. ff. 50. John Oxe...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Mar 1858
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1 item

1267. Add MS 52973 A-S

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Lord Chamberlain's Plays, 1852-1866. March-April 1858.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1858
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19 items

1268. Add MS 52973 B

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'Where's Mr Smith?' farce in one act by G. Conquest. Licence sent 27 March 1858 for performance at the Royal Grecian Easter Monday 1858. Keywords: hotels, inheritance, travel, suicide. ff. 26. George Augustus Conquest, acrobat, pantomimist, and dramatist: Plays by, submitted for licence: 18...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Mar 1858
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1 item

1269. Add MS 52973 C

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'Inez Danton, the repentant' (altered from 'The diamond coronet, or, Blighted hopes and rejected love'), drama in two acts by C. H. Hazlewood. Licence sent 30 March 1858 for performance at the Britannia Saloon. Cover signed Samuel Lane, proprietor. Keywords: aristocracy, death, family relati...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Mar 1858
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1 item

1270. Add MS 52973 D

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'The vendetta', drama in three acts by F. G. Cheetham. Licence sent 30 March 1858 for performance at the Surrey. Cover bears names of Messrs Shepherd and Creswick. Back page reads "Mr S. Smith, 91 Charlotte Street". Keywords: Italian influence, family relationships, festival and celebration...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Mar 1858
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1 item