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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 52929-53708 Language English Name Farnie, Henry Brougham, writer of plays and librettist, 1836-1889

1. Add MS 53034 H

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Add MS 53034 H
Title:
'The sleeping queen', by H. B. Farnie.
Scope & Content:
Opera di Camera. Licence sent 31 August 1864 for performance at the Gallery of Illustration. Mostly printed (n.d.) with manuscript additions. 'Mr German Reed's Opera di Camera Entertainment' noted on folio 1. The printed text has been physically cut from its original format and pasted onto lined...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1864
Extent:

7 folios.

2. Add MS 53038 B

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Add MS 53038 B
Title:
The bride of song, by H. B. Farnie.
Scope & Content:
Operetta in one act, with music composed by Jules Benedict. Licence sent 1 December 1864 for performance at Covent Garden. Printed by Cramer & Co., 201 Regent Street. (n.d.). Dramatis personae together with the names of the performers, Fanny Huddart among them, on folio 1v.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1864
Extent:

12 folios.

3. Add MS 53038 D

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Add MS 53038 D
Title:
Punchinello, by H. B. Farnie.
Scope & Content:
Operetta in one act. Licence sent 15 December 1864 for performance at Her Majesty's. Printed (n.d.). The name of the dramatist is not noted on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to H. B. Farnie, also mentioning W. C. Levy as the composer of the music.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1864
Extent:

14 folios.

4. Add MS 53051 F

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Add MS 53051 F
Title:
'The golden dustman', by H. B. Farnie.
Scope & Content:
Drama in a prologue and three acts. Licence sent 22 May 1866 for performance at Sadler's Wells. Adapted from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens. The name of the theatre manager, H. Nation, noted on folio 1 together with the date of intended production - Monday 28 May 1866. MS in several hands....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1866
Extent:

204 folios.

5. Add MS 53060 R

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Add MS 53060 R
Title:
Romeo e Giulietta, English translation by H. B. Farnie.
Scope & Content:
Opera in five acts. Licence sent 9 July 1867 for performance at Covent Garden. Printed (n.d.). Italian with parallel English text. Music by Gounod. Dramatis personae together with the names of the performers on folio 3.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
Jul 1867
Extent:

42 folios.

6. Add MS 53060 S

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Add MS 53060 S
Title:
'Reverses', by H. B. Farnie.
Scope & Content:
Drama in two acts. Licence sent 9 July 1867 for performance at the Strand. The name of the copyist is noted as Thomas J. Anderson on folio1.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1867
Extent:

i + 99 folios.

7. Add MS 53084 L

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Add MS 53084 L
Title:
'Little Faust', by H. B. Farnie.
Scope & Content:
Opera bouffe in three acts with music by Hervé. Licence sent 18 April 1870 for performance at the Lyceum. LCO Day Book asks for a considerable number of lines to be omitted, including separate references to Acts of Parliament, the Archbishop of Canterbury and certain suggestive lines making refe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1870
Extent:

90 folios.

8. Add MS 53085 L

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Add MS 53085 L
Title:
'Breaking the spell', by H. B. Farnie.
Scope & Content:
Comic opera in one act with music by J. Offenbach. Licence sent 2 May 1870 for performance at the Lyceum. Printed by Henderson, Rait and Fenton, 23 Berners Street, Oxford Street (n.d.), but with manuscript additions. The original printed title, The Chelsea Pensioner has been crossed through and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1870
Extent:

39 folios.

9. Add MS 53087 K

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Add MS 53087 K
Title:
'The idle 'prentice', By H. B. Farnie.
Scope & Content:
Burlesque. Licence sent 24 August 1870 for performance at the Strand. Nicoll gives the play's full title as 'The idle 'prentice, A Tyburnian idyll of high, low, Jack and his little game'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1870
Extent:

62 folios.

10. Add MS 53091 A

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Add MS 53091 A
Title:
The Mistletoe Bough! A Merrie Jest of an Old Oak Chest, by H. B. Farnie.
Scope & Content:
Burlesque. Licence sent 19 December 1870 for performance at the Adelphi. Printed (n.d.). The names of B. Webster [Benjamin Webster] and F (?) B. Chatterton are noted on folio 1. The LCO Day Book (Add MS 53704) asks for references to the Marquis of Lorne and a separate couplet of a suggestive nat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1870
Extent:

32 folios.