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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 52944 V
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'Harlequin and King Humming Top, or, The world of toys', comic Christmas pantomime. Licence sent 19 December 1853 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Songs included in MS. Not listed in Nicoll. Keywords: sport, harlequinade, Pop Goes the Weasel, industrialization, theatre, fai...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 19 Dec 1853
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 52944 W
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'Number nip and the spirit bride', drama in two acts by C. W. S. Brooks and Mark Lemon. Licence sent 22 December 1853 for performance at the Adelphi 26 December 1853. Request for licence appears to be written in Benjamin Webster's hand. Revisions throughout the text. Keywords: fairies and o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 22 Dec 1853
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 52944 X
Title:
Scope & Content:: Comic scenes for a Christmas pantomime for the season 1853 - 1854. No record of the issue of a separate licence in LCO Day Book Add. 53703. The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, is mentioned on the last page, but there are no other markings which would confirm that the scenes were intended to be an a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1853
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 52944 Y
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'The ocean queen and Sleeping Beauty of the deep, or, Harlequin and the mystic branch', comic pantomime in one act by Nelson Lee. Licence sent 19 December 1853 for performance at the City of London 26 December 1853. Keywords: harlequinade, fairies and other supernatural creatures, Chobham, mi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 19 Dec 1853
Extent:: 1 item

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