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2. Add MS 52979 I
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- Add MS 52979 I
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- ‘Industry and idleness’, drama in two acts. Licence sent 28 January 1859 for performance at the Victoria 8 February 1859. Cover signed J. J. Towers. Keywords: taverns, mothers, sons, clerks, police, prison, stagecraft, murder, death, workhouses, cross-dressing, dreams, concealed identity, s...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 28 Jan 1859
- Extent:
- 1 item
3. Add MS 52979 P
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- ‘A voice from the sea, or, The king’s casket’, drama in two acts. Licence sent 10 February 1859 for performance at the Britannia. Cover signed Samuel Lane, proprietor. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipulation to omit ‘Collect my labourers (from the vineyard I mean the cowshed)’. Keyw...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 10 Feb 1859
- Extent:
- 1 item
4. Add MS 52979 C
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- ‘The two Christmas eves, or, The old world and the new’, a new drama in two acts. Licence sent 6 January 1859 for performance at the City of London. Cover signed Messrs. Johnson and Nelson Lee. Keywords: twins, mistaken identity, farmers, Jews, gambling, burglary, robbery, family relationshi...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 6 Jan 1859
- Extent:
- 1 item
5. Add MS 52979 F
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- ‘The sister's sacrifice’ (‘The sister’s sacrifice, or, The orphans of Valneige’), drama in three acts by S. French. Licence sent 17 January 1859 for performance at the Lyceum on 20 January 1859. Keywords: French settings, orphans, rural setting, mountain setting, farmers, festivals and celebr...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 17 Jan 1859
- Extent:
- 1 item
6. Add MS 52979 B
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- ‘A helping hand, or, Every coat has a hole in it’, drama in two acts. Licence sent 5 January 1859 1859 for performance at the Surrey. Front cover made from unidentified newspaper miscellany. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipulation to omit the words ‘by the blood of the saints.’ Keyw...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 5 Jan 1859
- Extent:
- 1 item
7. Add MS 52979 M
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- ‘A house to let’, a new drama in two acts. Licence sent 5 February 1859 for performance at the Standard. MS written in two different hands. Area of one page torn away. Keywords: fairs, circus performers, family relationships, wards, navy, secret marriage, babies, widows, bigamy, illegitimac...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 5 Feb 1859
- Extent:
- 1 item
8. Add MS 52979 G
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- ‘Catherine Howard, or, Woman’s ambition’, drama in three acts by George Conquest. Licence sent 20 January 1859 for performance at the Grecian. Back cover signed B. O. Conquest, manager. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipulation that a number of oaths and references to God be omitted. ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 20 Jan 1859
- Extent:
- 1 item
9. Add MS 52979 L
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- ‘Where’s Brown? or, An hour’s romance’, farce in one act by Henry Shield. Licence sent 1 February 1859 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle on Tyne. Miscellaneous, unrelated notes written on the back of cover by the Examiner, W. B. Donne. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipul...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1 Feb 1859
- Extent:
- 1 item
10. Add MS 52979 N
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- Add MS 52979 N
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- ‘Where’s Brown?, or, Brown, Jones and Robinson in Brighton’ ('Has anyone seen Mr Brown?'), farce in one act. Licence sent 9 February 1859 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Brighton on 12 February 1859. Nicoll confuses this farce with Add, 52989 E, ‘Has anybody seen Mrs Brown?’, attributin...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 9 Feb 1859
- Extent:
- 1 item