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1. Add MS 52967 A

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'The struggles of the poor, or, Love, poverty and wealth', domestic drama in two acts by C. H. Hazlewood. Licence sent 16 June 1857 for performance at the City of London Theatre. Cover signed Messrs Johnson and Nelson Lee. Does not appear to be listed in LCO Day Book Add. 53073. Keywords: p...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
16 Jun 1857
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1 item

2. Add MS 52967 AA

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'The life of a beggar', drama in three acts by W. Travers. Licence sent 13 August 1857 for performance at City of London 14 August 1857. Cover signed Messrs Johnson and Nelson Lee. Keywords: festival and celebration, servants, death, poverty, poisoning, inheritance, murder, crime, fallen wom...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
13 Aug 1857
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1 item

3. Add MS 52967 BB

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'The life of a weaver, his trials and his struggles, or, The web of destiny', in two acts by C. H. Hazlewood. Licence sent 21 August 1857 for performance at the Britannia Saloon 28 November 1859. Cover signed Samuel Lane, proprietor. For other versions, see Add. 52967 Z. Keywords: poverty, ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
21 Aug 1857
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1 item

4. Add MS 52967 CC

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'How it's to be done', comic drama in two acts. Licence requested for performance on Tuesday, 18 August 1857, but refused. Note on cover states that the MS was referred to the Lord Chamberlain 24 August 1857. Nicoll lists a play of the same title under ‘unknown authors’ with a first performan...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
18 Aug 1857
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1 item

5. Add MS 52967 DD

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Index ff. 1.
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
1857
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1 item

6. Add MS 52967 G

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'Masaniello', an extravaganza in one act by R. B. Brough. Licence sent 27 June 1857 for performance at the Olympic 2 July 1857. Many revisions in different hands and on different types of paper. Illustration of revolutionaries’ banners included on p. 65. LCO Day Book Add. 53073 records the ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Jun 1857
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1 item

7. Add MS 52967 H

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'The lighthouse', drama in two acts with a prologue. Acts one and two by Wilkie Collins. Licence sent 1 August 1857 for performance at the Olympic 10 August 1857. Keywords: nautical interest, death, ghosts, dreams, Cornwall, murder, illness. ff. 28. London; Secular Institutions. Theatres. ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
1 Aug 1857
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1 item

8. Add MS 52967 I

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'Latest from New York' ('Nine points of the law', 'One plague drives out another', A Yankee trap for our old bird', 'Seraphina Serena Sprout'), farce in one act by J. S. Coyne. Licence sent 27 June 1857 for performance at the Adelphi. 'One of the above are the proposed title of the new farce'...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Jun 1857
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1 item

9. Add MS 52967 J

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'First and second floor', farce in one act. Licence sent 26 June 1857 for performance at the Theatre Royal Haymarket 29 June 1857. Actors’ names included alongside dramatis personae. Keywords: servants, travel, working women, fashion, flirtation. ff. 30. London; Secular Institutions. Theat...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
26 Jun 1857
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1 item

10. Add MS 52967 K

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'Victims', original comedy in three acts by Tom Taylor. Licence sent 5 July 1857 for performance at the Theatre Royal Haymarket 8 July 1857. Each act appears to have been posted separately. Actors’ names included alongside dramatis personae. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 32, no. 475. Keywords: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Jul 1857
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1 item