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9471. Add MS 53069 L

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Title:
'Chikkin Hazard', by F. C. Burnand.
Scope & Content:
Burlesque in one act, being a version of 'Foul play'. Licence sent 20 June 1868 for performance at the Queen's. Nicoll lists the play with the title 'Foul play, or, A story of Chikkin Hazard'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1868
Extent:

34 folios.

9472. Add MS 53070 X

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Title:
'The general election', by W. Brough.
Scope & Content:
Farce in one act. Licence sent 19 September 1868 for performance at the Lyceum. The name of the copyist is noted as Edward Hastings on folio 30. The play is listed as author unknown in Nicoll.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1868
Extent:

30 folios.

9473. Add MS 53073 E

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Title:
The Two Harlequins, by G. A. À Beckett
Scope & Content:
Operetta in one act with music by Emile Jonas. Licence sent 9 December 1868 for performance at the Gaiety. Printed by Chappell and Co., 50 New Bond Street. (1867).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1868
Extent:

8 folios.

9474. Add MS 53075 A

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Title:
'A day's fishing', by J. M. Morton.
Scope & Content:
Farce in one act. Licence sent 6 March 1869 for performance at the Adelphi. Mr B. Webster [Benjamin Webster] noted as the theatre manager on folio 1. Details of authorship are taken from Nicoll, the name of the dramatist not being recorded on the script. The play was also published by Lacy's (vo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1869
Extent:

26 folios.

9475. Add MS 53076 L

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Title:
'The teetotallers, or, Maine liquor law', by A. Halliday.
Scope & Content:
Farce in one act. Licence sent 21 April 1869 for performance at the Alexandra. The script contains extensive annotations and additions throughout in pencil. Nicoll also notes the alternative title 'A teetotal family'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1869
Extent:

41 folios.

9476. Add MS 53081 K

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Title:
'I'm not myself at all', by A. Maltby
Scope & Content:
Farce in one act. Licence sent 21 December 1869 for performance at Drury Lane.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1869
Extent:

23 folios.

9477. Add MS 53081 L

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Title:
'Beauty and the beast', by E. L. L. Blanchard.
Scope & Content:
Pantomime. Licence sent 21 December 1869 for performance at Drury Lane. Partly printed (n.d.). The first part of the script (folios 1-14) consists of printed pages cut from their original format and pasted into a notebook. Comic scenes, which are entirely manuscript, included separately in folio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1869
Extent:

30 folios.

9478. Add MS 53083 R

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Title:
'Behind the curtain', by G. Roberts.
Scope & Content:
Drama in three acts. Licence sent 6 April 1870 for performance at the Holborn. T. C. Burleigh noted as the theatre manager and Sefton Parry noted as the proprietor on folio 1. The name of the dramatist is not recorded on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to G. Roberts.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1870
Extent:

60 folios.

9479. Add MS 53087 K

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Title:
'The idle 'prentice', By H. B. Farnie.
Scope & Content:
Burlesque. Licence sent 24 August 1870 for performance at the Strand. Nicoll gives the play's full title as 'The idle 'prentice, A Tyburnian idyll of high, low, Jack and his little game'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1870
Extent:

62 folios.

9480. Add MS 53091 E

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Title:
'My name is Jones', by J. H. G. Whittaker.
Scope & Content:
Farce in one act. Licence sent 22 December 1870 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Bradford. Nicoll lists the play as subsequently performed at the Amphitheatre, Leeds on 28 October 1872.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1870
Extent:

29 folios.