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1. Add MS 53068 B

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Title:
'Violette'.
Scope & Content:
Drama in four acts. Licence sent 4 May 1868 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Lincoln. Six-pence stamp on folio 1v to cover book post to W. B. Donne. No indication of the author on the script and Nicoll lists the play as author unknown.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1868
Extent:
151 folios.

2. Add MS 53068 F

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Title:
'Oliver Twist', by J. B. Johnstone.
Scope & Content:
Drama in three acts. Licence sent 5 May 1868 for performance at the Surrey. Messrs Shepherd and Creswick, lessees of the theatre, noted on folio 1. The name of the author is not recorded on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to J. B. Johnstone.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1868
Extent:

46 folios.

3. Add MS 53068 H

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Title:
'War in Abyssinia, or, The death of the tyrant'.
Scope & Content:
Drama in two acts. Licence sent 4 May 1868 for performance at the Marylebone. The name of the author is not noted on the script and there is no attribution in Nicoll. LCO Day Book (Add MS 53704) asks for all oaths to be omitted.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1868
Extent:
39 folios.

4. Add MS 53068 J

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Title:
La Belle Hélène, by H. Meilhac and L. Halévy; English translation by C. L. Kenney.
Scope & Content:
Comic opera in three acts with music by J. Offenbach. Licence sent 5 May 1868 for performance at the St James's. Printed by Chappell & Co, New Bond Street (n.d.). Dramatis personae with the names of the performers on folio 3. French with parallel English text. LCO Day Book (Add MS 53704) ask...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
May 1868
Extent:

54 folios.

5. Add MS 53068 K

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Title:
'The fatal letter, or, The midnight revelation', by W. E. Suter.
Scope & Content:
Drama in two acts. Licence sent 9 May 1868 for performance at the East London. Mr Morris Abrahams noted above the details of the theatre on folio 1. The script is in the hand of the author.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1868
Extent:
51 folios.

6. Add MS 53068 L

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Title:
'Peggy's little game', by G. S. Hodgson.
Scope & Content:
Farce in one act. Licence sent 9 May 1868 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Greenwich.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1868
Extent:

21 folios.

7. Add MS 53068 M

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Title:
'The Abyssinian War and the death of King Theodore', by W. Travers.
Scope & Content:
Drama in two acts. Licence sent 11 May 1868 for performance at the Britannia. Samuel Lane noted as the theatre proprietor on folio 1. The name of the author is not recorded on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to W. Travers.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1868
Extent:

19 folios.

8. Add MS 53068 N

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Title:
Index
Scope & Content:
List of plays granted a licence by the Lord Chamberlain's Office during late April and May 1868, 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:
Apr 1868-May 1868
Extent:
1 folio