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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 52929-53708 Level [40] File

621. Add MS 52950 X

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'The balance of comfort', farce in one act by W. B. Bernard. Licence sent 17 November 1854 for performance at 21 November 1854. Request for licence written and signed by J. B. Buckstone. Actors' names listed alonside dramatis personae. Published in Lacy's, vol. 17, no. 241; see also another...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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17 Nov 1854
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622. Add MS 52950 Y

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'A comical countess', farce in one act by William Brough. Licence sent 24 November 1854 for performance at the Lyceum 27 November 1854. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that all oaths be omitted. Published in Lacy's, vol. 52, no. 769. Keywords: aristocracy, French influence, ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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24 Nov 1854
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623. Add MS 52950 Z

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'Pierre the foundling', drama in two acts by Dion Boucicault. Licence sent 2 December 1854 for performance at the Adelphi 7 December 1854. Request for licence written in a hand that appears to be Benjamin Webster's. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that the words 'Lord' and 'O...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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2 Dec 1854
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1 item

624. Add MS 52951 A

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'The wife's journal' ('My wife's diary'), comedietta in one act by T. W. Robertson. Licence sent 6 December 1854 for performance at the Olympic 18 December 1854. Published in Lacy's as My wife's diary, vol. 18, no 257. Keywords: food and dining, letters, flirtation, duelling, trains and rail...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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6 Dec 1854
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1 item

625. Add MS 52951 AA

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'Eugénie, or, A sister's vow', drama in one act by Dion Boucicault. Licence sent 8 January 1855 for performance at the Albert and Garrick Royal Amphitheatre. 'From L. Levy, Albert and Garrick Theatre, Leman Street, Whitechapel' written on title page. Nicoll lists this play as being performed...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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8 Jan 1855
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1 item

626. Add MS 52951 B

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'Abou Hassan, or, The hunt after happiness', semi-original fairy tale in rhyme in one act by Francis Talfourd. Licence sent 8 December 1854 for performance at the St. James’s 26 December 1854. Signed by Laura Seymour. Signed by J. G. Saunders, copyist, 41 Church Road, Commercial Rd East, 185...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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8 Dec 1854
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627. Add MS 52951 BB

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'Mr. Albert Smith's ascent of Mont Blanc, Holland and up the Rhine', entertainment by Albert Richard Smith. Licence sent 23 December 1854 for performance at the Egyptian Hall the same day. Printed, illustrated programme bound in with MS. Programme includes plan of stalls, omnibus list and ca...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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23 Dec 1854
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1 item

628. Add MS 52951 C

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'Robin Hood, Little John and Friar Tuck, or, Harlequin and the goblin of Mindestone Moor with the castle of 100 gates', comic pantomime. Licence sent 11 December 1854 for performance at the Theatre Royal Birmingham the same day. Signed by M. H. Simpson, Lessee. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 record...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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11 Dec 1854
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1 item

629. Add MS 52951 CC

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'Our nurse Dorothy', farce in one act. Licence sent 8 January 1855 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane 25 January 1855. 'Property of E. J. Smith, the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane Theatre' and 'C. Harry, P. Pelham Place, Brompton' written on title page. Speaking cues and stage direc...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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8 Jan 1855
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630. Add MS 52951 D

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'Two heads are better than one' ('The false head; or, The haunted house'), farce in one act by F. Lennox Horne. Licence sent 11 December 1854 for performance at the Lyceum 13 December 1854. Corrections pasted in. Published in Lacy's, vol 27, no 396. Keywords: family relationships, illness, i...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
11 Dec 1854
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1 item