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1. Add MS 53083 V

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Title:
Index.
Scope & Content:
List of plays submitted to the Lord Chamberlain's Office during the months of February, March and early April 1870, together with the names of the theatres of intended representation. In the hand of William Bodham Donne, Examiner of Plays.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1870-Apr 1870
Extent:
3 folios.

2. Add MS 53083 P

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Title:
'Masked'.
Scope & Content:
Drama in two acts. Licence sent 31 March 1870 for performance at the Britannia. Samuel Lane noted as the theatre proprietor on folio 1. The name of the dramatist is not recorded on the script and Nicoll lists the play as author unknown.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1870
Extent:
25 folios.

3. Add MS 53083 B

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Title:
'Out of place'.
Scope & Content:
Farce in one act. Licence sent 23 February 1870 for performance at the Royalty. The name of the dramatist is not noted on the script and Nicoll lists the play as author unknown.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1870
Extent:
26 folios.

4. Add MS 53083 U

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Title:
'Quasimodo', by H. Spry.
Scope & Content:
Burlesque. Licence sent 6 April 1870 for performance at the Grecian. The name of the dramatist is not noted on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to H. Spry under the title 'Quasimodo the Deformed, or, The man with the hump and the Belle of Notre Dame'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1870
Extent:

19 folios.

5. Add MS 53083 K

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Title:
'Devotion', by F. G. Cheatham.
Scope & Content:
Drama in three acts. Licence sent 31 March 1870 for performance at Sadler's Wells. The name of the dramatist is not noted on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to F. G. Cheatham.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1870
Extent:

97 folios.

6. Add MS 53083 E

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Title:
'Phobos fix', by the Vokes Family.
Scope & Content:
Comedietta in one act. Licence sent 3 March 1870 for performance at Drury Lane. The play is listed as author unknown in Nicoll.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1870
Extent:

9 folios.

7. Add MS 53083 O

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Title:
'Captain Smith', by E. Berrie
Scope & Content:
Farce in one act. Licence sent 30 March 1870 for performance at the Charing Cross. The name of the dramatist is not noted on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to E. Berrie.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1870
Extent:

17 folios.

8. Add MS 53083 J

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Title:
The King's Pleasure, by A. Thompson.
Scope & Content:
Drama in one act. Licence sent 19 March 1870 for performance at the Gaiety. Printed by Spottiswoode and Co, 38 Royal Exchange and New Street Square. (1870). A manuscript letter is included on folios i - ii, dated 17 March 1870 from Fred Pearson to W. B. Donne, Examiner of Plays, stating that an ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1870
Extent:

ii + 21

9. Add MS 53083 A

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Title:
'Sampson's wedding', by G. F. Rowe.
Scope & Content:
Farce in one act. Licence sent 22 February 1870 for performance at the Lyceum. Letter dated 21 February 1870 from the dramatist to W. B. Donne, Examiner of Plays, on Royal Lyceum headed notepaper on folios i - ii. A sketch of how the stage should look for the opening scene is included on folio 2...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1870
Extent:

ii + 42 folios.

10. Add MS 53083 D

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Title:
'Under a ban', by W. Duckworth.
Scope & Content:
Drama in three acts. Licence sent 2 March 1870 for performance at the Alexandra Theatre, Liverpool. LCO Day Book (Add MS 53704) asks for the line 'Seminary for young liars! He ought to be qualified for the Church by and by' to be omitted. The name of the dramatist is not noted on the script but ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1870
Extent:

52 folios.