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9131. Add MS 52980 K

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‘Never too late to mend' (altered from ‘The golden secret, or, Life in the new world’), a drama 'of woman's faith and man's treachery’, drama in two acts by C. H. Hazlewood. Licence sent 7 March 1859 for performance at the Britannia. Original title crossed out and amended in ink. Cover signe...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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7 Mar 1859
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1 item

9132. Add MS 52981 I

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‘Vandyke Brown’, farce in one act by A. C. Troughton. Licence sent 23 March 1859 for performance at the Strand. Copied by G. Hastings. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipulation that a section of text be omitted. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 39, no. 583. Keywords: photography, servants,...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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23 Mar 1859
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9133. Add MS 52982 S

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‘Retained for the defence’, farce in one act by J. Oxenford. Licence sent 13 May 1859 for performance at the Olympic. Cuts and amendments in pencil. List of actors’ names next to dramatis personae. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 41, no. 605. Keywords: lawyers, court, literary references, worki...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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13 May 1859
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1 item

9134. Add MS 52983 E

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‘Mervyn Clitheroe, or, There’s many a slip between cup and lip’, drama in three acts by G. Conquest. Licence sent 9 June 1859 for performance at the Grecian. Adapted from the serialisation ‘Mervyn Clitheroe’, by W. Harrison Ainsworth. Keywords: literary adaptations, inheritance, wills, medi...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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9 Jun 1859
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1 item

9135. Add MS 52984 C

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‘Never despair’, opera in one act by H. Drayton, music by F. J. Duggan. Licence sent 26 July 1859 for performance at the Adelphi. Printed words for songs pasted into the MS Keywords: musicians, opera setting, disguise, orphans, Venice, Marseilles, secret marriage, abduction, prison, fathers...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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26 Jul 1859
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1 item

9136. Add MS 52984 F

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Dinorah, or, Le pardon de Ploërmel, opera in three acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer, libretto by J. Barbier and M. Carré. Printed. Italian with English translation on facing pages. Date of licence given in LCO Day Book Add. 52703 as 31 July 1859 for performance at Covent Garden. Front cover missing...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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31 Jul 1859
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1 item

9137. Add MS 52984 J

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‘Bertha Gray’, drama in two acts. Licence sent 27 August 1859 for performance at the Standard. MS copied by two different hands. Keywords: workhouses, poverty, upper-class characters, lower-class characters, milliners, cooks, orphans, family relationships, death, forgery, pictures, music. ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Aug 1859
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1 item

9138. Add MS 52984 N

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‘The angel of darkness’, drama in three acts by George Conquest. Licence sent 16 September 1859 for performance at the Grecian 26 September 1859. Signed B. O. Conquest, proprietor.and manager. Some actors' names pencilled next to list of dramatis personae. Additional text in pencil. See als...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
16 Sep 1859
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1 item

9139. Add MS 52984 Q

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‘Ivy Hall’, drama in two acts by John Oxenford. Licence sent 21 September 1859 for performance at the Princess’s on 24 September 1859. Inside cover signed Augustus Harris. Signed E. and J. Hastings, copyists. Copied in more than one hand. Some actors’ names (including Henry Irving’s) penci...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
21 Sep 1859
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1 item

9140. Add MS 52984 V

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‘Love and hunger’, farce in one act by J. M. Morton. Licence sent 26 September 1859 for performance at the Adelphi. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 42, no. 624. Differences between Lacy’s text and MS text. Keywords: inns, Reading, servants, travel, food and eating, family relationships, engageme...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Sep 1859
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1 item