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1. Add MS 53065 V

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Title:
Index
Scope & Content:
List of plays submitted to the Lord Chamberlain's Office during January and early February 1868, together with the names of the theatres of intended performance. In the hand of William Bodham Donne, Examiner of Plays.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1868-Feb 1868
Extent:
1 folio.

2. Add MS 53065 P

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Title:
'Play', by T. W. Robertson.
Scope & Content:
Comedy in four acts. Licence sent 12 February 1868 for performance at the Prince of Wales's. The name C. J. James [Charles James James] noted as the theatre manager on folio 1. The name of the author is not recorded on the script but Nicoll attributes the comedy to T. W. Robertson. The play was ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1868
Extent:

64 folios.

3. Add MS 53065 B

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Title:
The Broken-hearted Club, by J. S. Coyne.
Scope & Content:
Dramatic sketch, or comedietta in one act. Licence sent 10 January 1868 for performance at the Haymarket. Printed (n.d.) with a manuscript cover-sheet containing the title and the dates of receipt and licence.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1868
Extent:

4 folios.

4. Add MS 53065 U

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Title:
'I'd be a butterfly, or, A dangerous complaint'.
Scope & Content:
Comedy in one act. Licence sent 18 February 1868 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham. The name of the author is not noted on the script and Nicoll lists the play as author unknown. Folio 1 does contain the line 'Property of Mlle Beatrice'. A sketched plan of how the theatre should lo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1868
Extent:
68 folios.

5. Add MS 53065 A

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Title:
'Old salt', by J. Besemeres.
Scope & Content:
Comic drama in two acts. Licence sent 8 January 1868 for performance at the Strand. The name of the author is not noted on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to J. Besemeres.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1868
Extent:

64 folios.

6. Add MS 53065 N

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Title:
'All but one', by W. Travers.
Scope & Content:
Drama in two acts. Licence sent 8 February 1868 for performance at the Britannia. Samuel Lane noted as the theatre proprietor on folio 1. The name of the author is not recorded on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to W. Travers.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1868
Extent:

22 folios.

7. Add MS 53065 I

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Title:
'A sensation hunt', by W. Stephens
Scope & Content:
Comedietta in one act. Licence sent 22 January 1868 for performance at St George's Hall. Folios 1-2 consist of a printed playbill for the evening's entertainment of Friday 24 January 1868 at the St George's, giving details of the productions to be performed by the Wandering Thespians for the ben...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1868
Extent:

56 folios

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Title:
'A nice mince-pie', by C. Johnson.
Scope & Content:
Farce in one act. Licence sent 15 January 1868 for performance at the Colosseum, Glasgow. Nicoll lists the play as author unknown and gives the title as 'Nice mince pie'. The author's full name noted on folio 1 as Charles Johnson.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1868
Extent:

17 folios.

9. Add MS 53065 J

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Title:
'Daddy Grey', by A. Halliday.
Scope & Content:
Drama in three acts. Licence sent 27 January 1868 for performance at the Royalty. Act one is in a separate hand to acts two and three. The name of the author is not noted on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to A. Halliday. The drama is sometimes listed with the variant spelling 'Daddy G...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1868
Extent:

114 folios.

10. Add MS 53065 S

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Title:
'Narcisse', by T. Taylor.
Scope & Content:
Drama in three acts. Licence sent 19 February 1868 for performance at the Lyceum. The name of the author is not noted on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to T. Taylor.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1868
Extent:

47 folios.