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11811. Add MS 52964 T

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'A wicked wife', comedy in one act by John Courtney. Licence sent 1 March 1857 for performance at the Theatre Royal Haymarket 16 February 1857. Some revisions to text. Published in Lacy's, vol. 30, no. 445. Keywords: French influence, Revolutionary France, family relationships, revolution, ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
1 Mar 1857
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1 item

11812. Add MS 52967 R

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'Quadroona, or, The blot upon humanity', romantic drama in two acts. Licence sent 17 July 1857 for performance at the Britannia Saloon the same day. Cover signed Samuel Lane, proprietor. For other versions, see Add. 52965 AA. Keywords: slavery and abolitionism, nautical interest, mixed race...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jul 1857
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1 item

11813. Add MS 52969 E

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'A pair of pigeons', farce in one act by Edward Stirling. Licence sent 4 November 1857 for performance at the Lyceum 5 November 1857. ‘Copied at the Theatrical Copying Office, 25 Bow Street’ written on final page. Keywords: speculation, adultery, fashion, marital separation. ff. 19. Edwar...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Nov 1857
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1 item

11814. Add MS 52969 W

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'Harlequin Billy Taylor, or, Britannia rules the waves', pantomime by G. H. George. Licence sent 15 December 1857 for performance at the Effingham Saloon 26 December 1857. Includes comic scenes. Title pages of script and comic scenes signed ‘Manager, Mr. Morris Abrahams.’ Songs included in ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Dec 1857
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1 item

11815. Add MS 52971 S

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'A woman in my dust hole', farce in one act by L. S. Buckingham. Licence sent 9 February 1858 for performance at the Strand 9 February 1858. Cover signed 'Leicester Buckingham, 14 Clements Inn'. Keywords: art and artists, letters, theatre, fashion, supernatural, poisoning, French influence. ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Feb 1858
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1 item

11816. Add MS 52990 F

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'A play of disasters, or, Next of kin' ('Next of kin'), farce in one act by Edmund Falconer. Licence sent 28 February 1860 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham. Text bears name of E. H. Keating. Postage stamps affixed to back cover. Published in Lacy's, vol. 46, no. 679 under th...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Feb 1860
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1 item

11817. Add MS 53001 C

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'The old world and the new, or, British pluck and Yankee valour' (altered from 'The brazen drum, or, A Yankee in Poland'), national drama in two acts by Silas Steele, adapted by A. B. Bierce. Licence sent 18 February 1861 for performance at the Marylebone. Cover signed J. H. Cave and A. B. Bi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Feb 1861
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1 item

11818. Add MS 53002 I

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'The pirates of the savannah', drama in three acts. Licence sent 22 March 1861 for performance at the Surrey. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipulation that references to God be omitted. For other versions, see Add. 53001 I and 53003 R. ff. 29. John Thomas Douglass, called 'James W...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Mar 1861
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1 item

11819. Add MS 53002 Q

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'House on the bridge of Notre Dame', drama in three acts by J. T. Douglass. Licence sent 27 March 1861 for performance at the Standard. MS written in more than one hand. For other versions, see Add. 53000 N, 53002 J, and 53003 N. ff. 70. John Thomas Douglass, called 'James Willing'; actor ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Mar 1861
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1 item

11820. Add MS 53004 E

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Le voyage de Monsieur Perrichon, comedy in four acts by MM. Eugène Labiche and Édouard Martin. Printed (A. Bourdilliat; Libraire Nouvelle, 1860.) French. Licence sent 11 May 1861 for performance at the St James’s. First performed at the Gymnase, Paris, 10 September 1860. Publisher’s adver...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
11 May 1861
Extent:
1 item