Drama in five acts. Licence sent 11 October 1869 for performance at the Gaiety. 'Adapted from the French of Le drame de la Rue de la Paix by Adolphe Belot', as noted on folio 1. MS appears to be in three separate hands. The play was also published by Lacy's (vol 86).
'L'Honneur de la Maison', by Léon Battu and Maurice Desvignes
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'L'Honneur de la Maison', by Léon Battu and Maurice Desvignes. Play read 7 April 1874 for a licence to perform at the Princess's Theatre, London. 13 folios.
'Baron Munchausen, or, Harlequin and the mountains of the moon', by F. Fenton and W. R. Osman.
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Pantomime. Licence sent 20 December 1864 for performance at the Victoria. Messrs [Frederick] Frampton and Fenton noted as lessees of the theatre on folio 1. The LCO Day Book (Add MS 53703) asks for a reference to the 'only death that draws from life' be omitted in performance. The attribution of...
'May Brierly, or, The ticket of leave man's wife', by S. Parry and C. S. Cheltnam.
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Drama in three acts. Licence sent 14 March 1866 for performance at the Greenwich. Nicoll lists the play under the title 'Six years after, or, The ticket-of-leave man's wife', noting further that the play was performed at the Olympic on 4 August 1866. The play was also published by Lacy's (vol 69).
The Girls of the Period, or, The Island of Nowarparticilar, by F. C. Burnand.
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Described as 'a folly in two scenes of prose, rhyme, dance and song' on folio 2. Licence sent 20 February 1869 for performance at Drury Lane. Printed (n.d.), with slight manuscript amendments. The printed pages have been cut from their original booklet and attached to the pages of a notebook.
'Dead Man's Point; or, The Lighthouse on the Carn Ruth', by F.C.Burnand
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'Dead Man's Point; or, The Lighthouse on the Carn Ruth', a drama in four acts and two tableaux by Francis Cowley Burnand. Licence sent 26 January 1871 for performance at Adelphi Theatre, London. 43 folios.