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9341. Add MS 53065 O

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Title:
'One too many for him', by T. J. Williams.
Scope & Content:
Farce in one act. Licence sent 8 February 1868 for performance at the Olympic. B. Webster [Benjamin Webster] noted on folio 1 as the theatre manager. The name of the author is not recorded on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to T. J. Williams, although giving the theatre of performance ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1868
Extent:

26 folios.

9342. Add MS 53066 P

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Title:
'The Wolf of the Pyrenees', by W. Travers.
Scope & Content:
Drama in two acts. Licence sent 21 March 1868 for performance at the Britannia. Samuel Lane noted as the theatre proprietor on folio 1. The name of the author is not recorded on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to W. Travers.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1868
Extent:

14 folios.

9343. Add MS 53069 E

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Title:
'Flo's first frolic', by T. J. Williams.
Scope & Content:
Farce in one act. Licence sent 22 May 1868 for performance at the Princess's. Penny Red stamp on folio 13v. The name of the author is not noted on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to T. J. Williams. LCO Day Book (Add MS 53704) lists the play with the title 'Flows first frolic'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1868
Extent:

13 folios.

9344. Add MS 53070 G

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Title:
Il Domino Nero, translated by T. J. Williams.
Scope & Content:
Comic opera in three acts with music by [Daniel] Auber. Licence sent 22 July 1868 for performance at Covent Garden. Printed by J. Miles & Co, Wardour Street (n.d.). Dramatis personae with the original cast list on folio 3. Italian with parallel English text.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
Jul 1868
Extent:
46 folios.

9345. Add MS 53070 H

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Title:
'Land rats and water rats', by W. Phillips.
Scope & Content:
Drama in four acts. Licence sent 15 August 1868 for performance at the Surrey. Messrs Shepherd and Creswick, lessees of the theatre, noted on folio 1. The name of the author is not recorded on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to W. Phillips.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1868
Extent:

53 folios.

9346. Add MS 53070 L

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Title:
'The convict Jean Valjean 9430', by H. Neville.
Scope & Content:
Drama in a prologue and four acts. Licence sent 5 August 1868 for performance at the Amphitheatre, Liverpool. MS in two hands. The name of the author is not noted on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to H. Neville under the title 'The convict'. Based on the novel Les Misérables by Victor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1868
Extent:

77 folios.

9347. Add MS 53071 R

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Title:
'Hernani, or, The double wrong', by C. Osborne.
Scope & Content:
Drama in three acts. Licence sent 22 October 1868 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Aberdeen. The play is adapted and considerably altered from Victor Hugo's romantic and historical drama of the same name, as noted on folio 1. Nicoll lists the play as being performed in Belfast on 5 October ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Oct 1868
Extent:

62 folios.

9348. Add MS 53073 L

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Title:
'Matching for money, or, The cobbler's stratagem', by B. Brierley.
Scope & Content:
Farce in one act. Licence sent 19 December 1868 for performance at the Princes's Theatre, Manchester. The play is listed as author unknown in Nicoll.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1868
Extent:

23 folios.

9349. Add MS 53073 M

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Title:
'Chaw-Sword, or, The last of the paladins', by R. Reece.
Scope & Content:
Burlesque. Licence sent 19 December 1868 for performance at the Gallery of Illustration. The attribution of the play to R. Reece is taken from Nicoll, the name of the dramatist not being noted on the script.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1868
Extent:

13 folios.

9350. Add MS 53074 S

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Title:
'Destiny, or, A fight with fate', by E. Towers.
Scope & Content:
Drama in four acts. Licence sent 20 February 1869 for performance at the East London. The name Morris Abrahams noted on folio 1. The name of the author is not recorded on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to E. Towers.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1869
Extent:

88 folios.