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10591. Add MS 52956 C

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'A sister's wrongs, or, The dark hour before dawn', drama in two acts. Licence sent 8 September 1855 for performance at the Britannia Saloon 8 September 1855. Signed by Samuel Lane, proprietor. Keywords: crime, police, eighteenth-century settings, sport, pubs and inns, aristocracy, literatur...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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8 Sep 1855
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1 item

10592. Add MS 52957 M

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'Harlequin and the ratcatcher's daughter, or, Lily Vite Land and his laughing donkey, or, Old Father Thames of Tiddy Bells Alley and the fairy of the Ruby and Emerald Lane', pantomime by W. Seaman. Licence sent 17 December 1855 for performance at the Bower Saloon 17 December 1855. Nicoll list...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
17 Dec 1855
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1 item

10593. Add MS 52958 A

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‘Urgent private affairs’, farce in one act by J. S. Coyne. Licence sent 5 January 1856 for performance at the Adelphi 7 January 1856. Request for licence written and signed B. Webster. Keywords: doctors and medicine, military, Ratcatcher’s Daughter, working class characters. ff. 32. London...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
5 Jan 1856
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1 item

10594. Add MS 52958 P

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‘The married flirt, or, A conjugal lesson’ (‘Stay at home’), comedy in two acts by Henry Danvers. Licence sent 31 January 1856 for performance at the Olympic 3 July 1856. LCO Day Book Add. 53073 records the stipulation that all oaths be omitted. For another version, see Add. 52960 A. Publis...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Jan 1856
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1 item

10595. Add MS 52959 F

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‘A fascinating individual, or, Too agreeable by half’, farce in one act by Henry Danvers. Licence sent 16 April 1856 for performance at the Olympic 9 June 1856. Letter signed by ‘Mr. J. Linden for Mr. A. Wigan’ bound into MS. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 27, no. 394. Keywords: industrialisatio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Apr 1856
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1 item

10596. Add MS 52959 L

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‘Muleteer of Toledo’, comedietta in one act. Licence sent 6 May 1856 for performance at the Grecian Saloon 12 May 1856. Cover signed Ro. Conquest, responsible manager and proprietor. Songs included in MS. See also another version as Add. 52953 P. Keywords: Spanish characters, Spain, peasant...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 May 1856
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1 item

10597. Add MS 52962 X

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‘Jones, the avenger’, farce in one act by F. Talfourd. Licence sent 18 November 1856 for performance at the Olympic 24 November 1856. Keywords: servants, science and technology, illness, orphans, letters, family relationships. ff. 20. London; Secular Institutions. Theatres. Olympic Theatre:...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Nov 1856
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1 item

10598. Add MS 52962 Y

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‘The elves, or, The statue bride’, ballet extravaganza in two acts by Charles Selby. Licence sent 18 November 1856 for performance at the Adelphi 18 November 1856. Request for licence signed B. Webster. Songs included in MS. Final scene written on a different type of paper to the rest of th...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Nov 1856
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1 item

10599. Add MS 52962 Z

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‘Frolics in France’, interlude in one act. Licence sent 19 November 1856 for performance at the Strand 19 November 1856. Cover has illegible signature, as the author, and ‘copyright of Edwin Bryer, Strand Theatre’. Keywords: servants, theatre, French influence, disguise. ff. 23. London. Se...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Nov 1856
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1 item

10600. Add MS 52963 B

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‘Blind man’s bluff, or, The man who would see and couldn’t’, comedy in one act. Licence sent 27 November 1856 for performance at the Britannia Saloon. Cover signed Samuel Lane, proprietor. Listed neither in the LCO Day Book Add. 53073 nor Nicoll. Keywords: gardens, seaside settings, science...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Nov 1856
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1 item