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10731. Add MS 52964 N

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'Double faced people', comedy in three acts by John Courtney. Licence sent 7 April 1857 for performance at the Haymarket 7 February 1857. Intended performance date given as 7 February 1857. LCO Day Book Add. 53073 records the stipulation that all oaths be omitted as well as the name of Lord ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Apr 1857
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1 item

10732. Add MS 52967 E

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'La pomme de Turguie', opéra-bouffe in one act. French. Licence sent 24 June 1857 for performance at the St. James’s. Cover signed J. Mitchell. Keywords: doctors and medicine, French influence, inheritance, landlords and tenants, food and dining. ff. 16. London; Secular Institutions. Thea...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
24 Jun 1857
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1 item

10733. Add MS 52967 H

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'The lighthouse', drama in two acts with a prologue. Acts one and two by Wilkie Collins. Licence sent 1 August 1857 for performance at the Olympic 10 August 1857. Keywords: nautical interest, death, ghosts, dreams, Cornwall, murder, illness. ff. 28. London; Secular Institutions. Theatres. ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Aug 1857
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1 item

10734. Add MS 52968 U

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'Deadly reports', comedietta in one act by J. P. Simpson. Licence sent 19 October 1857 for performance at the Olympic 26 October 1857. Cover signed ‘Lessees Messrs. Robson and W.S. Emden.’ Keywords: the supernatural, widows, ghosts, law and the legal profession, military. ff. 17. London; S...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Oct 1857
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1 item

10735. Add MS 52968 V

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'The drapery question, or, Who's for India', apropos sketch in one act by Charles Selby. Licence sent 24 October 1857 for performance at the Adelphi 28 October 1857. ‘Proprietor, Benjamin Webster’ written on title page. Includes some later additions to text. Includes songs. Keywords: fashio...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Oct 1857
Extent:
1 item

10736. Add MS 52969 M

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'King Richard of the Lion Heart', new and original burlesque extravaganza by ‘Nick Nemo’ (i.e., H. J. Byron). Licence sent 24 November 1857 for performance at the Strand. Revisions and prompter’s notes in pencil. Songs included in MS. A ‘Program of the Piece’ is included in the last few pag...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Nov 1857
Extent:
1 item

10737. Add MS 52970 N

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‘King Tea Pot the Great, or, Harlequin and the spirit queen, the fairy and the woodcutter’, pantomime by W .E. Suter. Licence sent 21 December 1857 for performance at the Queen’s 21 December 1857. Comic scenes included. Cover signed C. J. James. Last page of pantomime script is signed W. E....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Dec 1857
Extent:
1 item

10738. Add MS 52974 E

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Tit for tat, farce in one act by Captain Horton Rhys. Printed (T. H. Lacy, n.d.) Licence sent 20 May 1858 for performance at the Lyceum 24 May 1858. Keywords: servants, letters, working class characters. ff. 12. Captain Horton Rhys, called 'Morton Price', writer of plays: Plays by, submitt...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 May 1858
Extent:
1 item

10739. Add MS 52976 H

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'The maid and the magpie, or, The fatal spoon', burlesque in one act by H. J. Byron. Licence sent 12 October 1858 for performance at the Strand. Words of songs included in text. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipulation that a passage about Baron Rothschild be omitted. Published in L...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Oct 1858
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1 item

10740. Add MS 52981 L

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‘Francesca, or, A dream of Venice’, tragedy in five acts by Edmund Falconer. Licence sent 28 March 1859 to be performed 31 March 1859 at the Lyceum. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipulation that a section of text be omitted and ‘Heaven’ be substituted for ‘God’. Extensive cuts crossed...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Mar 1859
Extent:
1 item