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9201. Add MS 52994 T

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'Life for life, or, The reprieve', drama in three acts by W. Travers. Licence sent 31 July 1860 for performance at the Grecian on 6 August 1860. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipulation that all oaths be omitted, and that 'Heaven' be substituted for 'God'. Cover signed B. Conquest, ma...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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31 Jul 1860
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1 item

9202. Add MS 52995 M

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'The fortune-teller, or, The abduction of the Jew's daughter', drama in two acts by W. Travers. Licence sent 28 September 1860 for performance at the City of London Theatre. Note on title page that the script is the “License copy for Messrs. Johnson and Nelson Lee”, the theatre's proprietors....
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
28 Sep 1860
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1 item

9203. Add MS 52996 D

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'The red bridge', drama in two acts by W. E. Suter. Licence sent 17 October 1860 to be performed on 20 October at the Queen's. Front cover signed C. J. James. Ends of Acts 1 and 2 signed W. E. Suter. See Add. 53007 F. Ink sketch of stage positions on f. 14v. Descriptive headings for scene...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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17 Oct 1860
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1 item

9204. Add MS 52996 J

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'A bachelor's wife', comedietta in two acts by F. Watson. Licence sent 25 October 1860 for performance at Drury Lane. Name of E. T. Smith, the lessee and manager, noted on the cover. First produced New York, 11 January, 1858 listed in Nicoll. MS written in different hands. Keywords: marita...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
25 Oct 1860
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9205. Add MS 52997 O

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'Gideon's ghost', farce in one act by A. B. Bierce. Licence sent 15 November 1860 for performance at the Standard. Inscribed A. B. Bierce, American comedian. Keywords: pubs and inns, Americans, inheritance, flirtation, imprisonment, forgery, disguise, assault, wills, pictures. ff. 12. A. ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
15 Nov 1860
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1 item

9206. Add MS 52998 G

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'The young recruit', operetta in two acts by Mrs. Valentine Roberts (for the music by John Fulcher). Licence sent 23 November 1860 for performance at the Pavilion. Contains words to songs. Keywords: factory workers, music, stagecraft, singers, dance, operatic references, popular songs, patri...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
23 Nov 1860
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1 item

9207. Add MS 52998 I

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'Harlequin Aladdin, or, The wonderful lamp', comic pantomime by J. H. Doyne. Licence sent 27 November 1860 for performance at the Queen's, Manchester. 'Taken from the Arabian nights' written on front cover. Penny red stamp and Manchester postmark on back cover. Contains words for songs. Key...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
27 Nov 1860
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1 item

9208. Add MS 52998 K

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'The thief-taker of Paris, or, Vidocq', drama with prologue and two acts by F. Marchant. Licence sent 3 December 1860 for performance at the Britannia. Name of Samuel Lane, the thetare proprietor, noted on the script. Based on the French chief of police, Eugène François Vidocq who published ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
3 Dec 1860
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1 item

9209. Add MS 53000 C

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'The woman in white', drama in three acts and an introduction adapted and arranged by W. Sidney. Licence sent 11 January 1861 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Norwich. Based on Wilkie Collins’ The woman in white, published 1860. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipulation that all o...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
11 Jan 1861
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1 item

9210. Add MS 53000 D

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'London vice and London virtue, or, Life, love and fortune', drama in two acts by H. Saville. Licence sent 11 January 1861 for performance 21 January 1861 at the Victoria. Cover signed Isaac Cohen for Joseph Johnson Towers. MS written in more than one hand. ff. 33. Henry Faucit Saville, wr...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Jan 1861
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1 item