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8931. Add MS 52967 J

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'First and second floor', farce in one act. Licence sent 26 June 1857 for performance at the Theatre Royal Haymarket 29 June 1857. Actors’ names included alongside dramatis personae. Keywords: servants, travel, working women, fashion, flirtation. ff. 30. London; Secular Institutions. Theat...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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26 Jun 1857
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1 item

8932. Add MS 52967 W

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'Eliza Fenning', drama in two acts. Licence sent 8 August 1857 for performance at the Victoria 31 August 1857. Request for licence signed by J. Towers. Text written in two different hands. Keywords: orphans, servants, poisoning, landlords and tenants, poverty, doctors and medicine, murder, ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
8 Aug 1857
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1 item

8933. Add MS 52968 H

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'Halfpenny child, or, The archives of the poor' ('The token, or, Lenza, the child of the wanderer'), drama in two acts. Licence sent 18 September 1857 for performance at the Victoria ‘Monday next’. Request for licence signed by J. Towers. LCO Day Book Add. 53073 includes a letter requesting ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
18 Sep 1857
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1 item

8934. Add MS 52968 T

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'Quadroon, the slave bride, or, The tree cavern', drama in two acts. Licence sent 15 October 1857 for performance at the Victoria the same day. Request for licence written by Isaac Cohen (copyist) for J. J. Towers. LCO Day Book Add. 53073 records the stipulation that an attempted rape scene ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
15 Oct 1857
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1 item

8935. Add MS 52972 K

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'Samuel in search of himself', farce in one act by J. S. Coyne and H. C. Coape. Licence sent 5 March 1858 for performance at the Princess's 5 April 1858. Speaking cues and stage directions underlined in red. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipulation that all oaths be omitted. Keywords...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Mar 1858
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1 item

8936. Add MS 52973 I

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'The giant's tomb and Eleanor the accursed, or, The sin and sorrow of 20 years', romantic drama in two acts by W. E. Suter. Listed in Nicoll as 'The giant's tomb, or, Eleanor the accursed, or The sins and sorrows of twenty years'. No date is cited in connection with the issue of the licence, but...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1858
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1 item

8937. Add MS 52974 R

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'The flower of the flock', drama in three acts, adapted from the story by P. Egan. Licence sent 12 June 1858 for performance at the Victoria. Request for licence written by Isaac Cohen. Cover signed Wm. Thompson Townsend. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipulation that all oaths be omi...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
12 Jun 1858
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1 item

8938. Add MS 52979 G

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‘Catherine Howard, or, Woman’s ambition’, drama in three acts by George Conquest. Licence sent 20 January 1859 for performance at the Grecian. Back cover signed B. O. Conquest, manager. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipulation that a number of oaths and references to God be omitted. ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jan 1859
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1 item

8939. Add MS 52979 L

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‘Where’s Brown? or, An hour’s romance’, farce in one act by Henry Shield. Licence sent 1 February 1859 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle on Tyne. Miscellaneous, unrelated notes written on the back of cover by the Examiner, W. B. Donne. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipul...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Feb 1859
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1 item

8940. Add MS 52979 N

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‘Where’s Brown?, or, Brown, Jones and Robinson in Brighton’ ('Has anyone seen Mr Brown?'), farce in one act. Licence sent 9 February 1859 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Brighton on 12 February 1859. Nicoll confuses this farce with Add, 52989 E, ‘Has anybody seen Mrs Brown?’, attributin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Feb 1859
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1 item