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Container Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 52930 A-BB

21. Add MS 52930 S

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‘The Corsican brothers, or, The scarlet letter’, drama in three acts by George Almar. Licence sent 11 March 1852 for performance at the Victoria 15 March 1852. Two different types of paper used and passages crossed out throughout. Page 2 contains space for a song to be inserted. For other v...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
11 Mar 1852
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1 item

22. Add MS 52930 T

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‘The ragged school’, drama in one act by Edward Stirling. Licence sent 12 March 1852 for performance at the Strand 15 March 1852. According to Nicoll, published in Duncombe, but reference not verified. Keywords: poverty, education, orphans, cross dressing, street musicians, children. ff. 15...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Mar 1852
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1 item

23. Add MS 52930 U

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‘Annie Tyrell, or, The tempter and the tempted’, domestic drama in three acts by T. J. Serle. Licence sent 12 March 1852 for performance at the Surrey. Actors’ names pencilled in next to the dramatis personae. Many revisions throughout text which do not appear to have been made by the Examin...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Mar 1852
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1 item

24. Add MS 52930 V

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‘The Hebrew son, or, The child of Babylon’ (‘Joseph and his brethren’), drama in three acts. Licence sought 11 March 1852 for performance at the Olympic, but refused on 13 March. According to LCO Day Book Add. 53703, the refusal of a licence was because the play was ‘merely a dramatic account o...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Mar 1852
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1 item

25. Add MS 52930 W

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‘Love’s device, or, Where there’s a will there’s a way’, interlude in one act. Licence sent 17 March 1852 for performance at the Surrey. Red underlining of stage directions and speaking cues throughout some of the text. Title page signed by Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. Songs included in M...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Mar 1852
Extent:
1 item

26. Add MS 52930 X

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‘The bottle imp, or, Spirits in bond’, burlesque in one act by W. P. Hale and Francis Talfourd. Licence sent 17 March 1852 for performance at the Grecian Saloon 12 April 1852. Songs included in MS. Manager’s signature appears on last page. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation tha...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Mar 1852
Extent:
1 item

27. Add MS 52930 Y

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‘The Corsican brothers’, ‘legendary drama in three acts dramatised from A. Dumas’s romance Les Frères Corses by E. Grangé and Xavier de Montépin. Translated and adapted to the English stage by Charles Webb. Printed from the acting copy with remarks [ … ] by D – G-.’ Printed (Cumberland’s Brit...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Mar 1852
Extent:
1 item

28. Add MS 52930 Z

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‘The Corsican brothers’, drama in three acts. Printed (Lacy’s, vol. 6, no. 79). Licence sent 19 March 1852 for performance at the Marylebone. Scrap of a playbill that lists title and ‘stage manager copy’ bound in with text. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that exclamations s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Mar 1852
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1 item