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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 52929-53708 Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1011. Add MS 52963 K

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Durch!, comedy in one act by Rudolph Genée. Printed (1855). German. Licence sent 13 December 1856 for performance at the St James’s. Includes advertising. ff. 25. Rudolph Genée, writer of plays: London; Secular Institutions. Theatres. St James' Theatre: Durch! comedy in one act by Rudolph...
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Western Manuscripts
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German
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13 Dec 1856
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1012. Add MS 52963 L

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Badekuren, comedy in one act by G. H. Gans, Edler Herr zu Putlitz. Printed (1850). Licensed for performance 13 December 1856, almost certainly at the St James’s, although this is not listed in the LCO Day Book Add. 53073. The play, Ein Hausmittel, another one-act comedy, is bound with Badekure...
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Western Manuscripts
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German
Date Range:
13 Dec 1856
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1 item

1013. Add MS 52963 M

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‘Hushaby baby on the tree top, or, The comet of 1856 without his tail’, pantomime. Licence sent 13 December 1856 for performance at the Britannia Saloon 13 December 1856. Comic scenes appear before the speaking parts, the reverse of the usual order. Keywords: the press, harlequinade, Crimea,...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
13 Dec 1856
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1 item

1014. Add MS 52963 N

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‘Anne Boleyn, or, Harlequin King Harry and the miller of the river Dee’, comic pantomime by Nelson Lee. Licence sent 19 December 1856 for performance at the City of London 19 December 1856. Cover signed Messrs. Johnson and Nelson Lee. Revisions and annotations throughout. Keywords: Early Mo...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Dec 1856
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1 item

1015. Add MS 52963 O

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‘King Crib, or, A game of speculation’, pantomime. Licence sent 19 December 1856 for performance at the Grecian Saloon 19 December 1856. Songs included in MS. Keywords: fairies and other supernatural creatures, harlequinade, literature and literary reference, festival and celebration, dance,...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
19 Dec 1856
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1 item

1016. Add MS 52963 P

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‘Ein Arzt’, comedy in one act by A.W. Heffe. German. Licence sent 19 December 1856 for performance at the St James’s 15 December 1856. Letter signed by L. Grünfeld requesting licence bound in with text. ff. 38. A. W. Heffe, writer of plays: Play by, submitted: 1856: Germ.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
19 Dec 1856
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1 item

1017. Add MS 52963 Q

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‘King Jupiter, or, The freaks of the Graces’, burlesque in one act. Licence sent 19 December 1856 for performance at the Effingham Saloon 26 December 1856. Cover signed proprietor, Mr Morris Abrahams. Songs included in MS. Keywords: fairies and other supernatural creatures, drinking and dru...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Dec 1856
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1 item

1018. Add MS 52963 R

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La demande en marriage, song with words by Gustave Lemoine for the music by Mlle. L. Puget. Printed. French. Licence sent 19 December 1856 for performance at the St James’s. Publisher’s list at back. Keywords: French influence. ff. 2. Gustave Lemoine, dramatist: London; Secular Instituti...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and German
Date Range:
19 Dec 1856
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1 item

1019. Add MS 52963 S

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‘Paul Pry on horseback! or, Harlequin and the magic horseshoe!’, grand comic equestrian pantomime written expressly for Astley’s Royal Amphitheatre by C. A. Somerset. Licence sent 19 December 1856 for performance at Astley’s Royal Amphitheatre 26 December 1856. Cover signed William Cooke, les...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Dec 1856
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1 item

1020. Add MS 52963 T

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‘The magic mistletoe, or, Harlequin Humbug and the shams of London’, pantomime. Licence sent 22 December 1856 for performance at the Strand 3 January 1857. LCO Day Book Add. 53073 records the stipulation that two lines be omitted. Keywords: literature and literary reference, doctors and medi...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Dec 1856
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1 item