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Container Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 52948 A-DD

21. Add MS 52948 Q

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'Perfect confidence', drama in one act. Licence sent 3 July 1854 for performance at the Olympic 10 July 1854. Revisions throughout. Keywords: widows, travel, letters, Anglo-Indian characters. ff. 42. Anon, writer of plays: 'Perfect confidence', drama in one act: 1854.
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
3 Jul 1854
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1 item

22. Add MS 52948 R

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'Hopes and fears', drama in one act. Licence sent 5 July 1854 for performance at the Adelphi 6 July 1854. Request for licence written and by Benjamin Webster. For a French version under the title La joie fair peur, see Add. 52947 K, and for another English version, ‘Sunshine through the cl...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
5 Jul 1854
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1 item

23. Add MS 52948 S

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'The courier of Lyons, or, The robbers of the mail post', drama in three acts. Licence sent 12 July 1854 for performance at the City of London. Signed by Messrs. Johnson and Nelson Lee. For other versions see Add. MS 52948 A, 52948 P, and Add. 52951 T. Keywords: food and dining, dandies, cr...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
12 Jul 1854
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1 item

24. Add MS 52948 T

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'The old chateau, or, A night of peril', drama in three acts by J. S. Coyne. Licence sent 21 July 1854 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket 24 July 1854. Actors’ names listed alongside dramatis personae. 'Examiner abroad for 7 days' noted on title page. Revisions throughout. Pub...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
21 Jul 1854
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1 item

25. Add MS 52948 U

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'The united service of England and France', farce by Edward Stirling. Licence sent 21 July 1854 for performance at the Strand the same day. Keywords: British Empire, French imperialism, Russian Empire, Muslims and Islam, military, poverty, family relationships, Crimea. ff. 8. Edward Stirlin...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
21 Jul 1854
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1 item

26. Add MS 52948 V

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'The black and red galleys, or, The doomed son', dramatic sketch in two acts (adapted) from one of Eugene Sue's novels by G. D. Pitt, ‘expressly for Mr. J. W. Harmer’. Licence sent 22 July 1854 for performance at the Pavilion 1 August 1854. Signed by J. C. Morgan, prompter. Keywords: Greek c...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Jul 1854
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1 item

27. Add MS 52948 W

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'There's nothing like a friend at court when a man's in search of relations', ‘entirely original Eastern musical comic drama’ in one act by Thomas Prest. Licence sent 26 July 1854 for performance at the Grecian Saloon the same day. 'W. B. Donne, London Library, St James Sq' written on last pa...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jul 1854
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1 item

28. Add MS 52948 X

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Ornano, tragedy founded on facts in five acts by Malcolm W. Hilles. Printed. Licence sent 27 July 1854 for performance at the Theatre Royal Birmingham the same day. Keywords: Venice, Italian influence, politicians, aristocracy, nautical interest, treason, military, prisons and prisoners. ff...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Jul 1854
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1 item

29. Add MS 52948 Y

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'The knight and the water lily, or, Love among the mermaids', a melodramatic ballet d'action in one act. Licence sent 27 July 1854 for performance at Astley’s Royal Amphitheatre 31 July 1854. Signed by William Cooke, lessee and manager, and Wm. West, stage manager. First two pages bound toge...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Jul 1854
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1 item

30. Add MS 52948 Z

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'The bravo Ix', ‘original extravaganic farcical histrionic’ dramatic sketch in one act. Licence sent 28 July 1854 for performance at the Bower Saloon the same day. Signed by John Courtney and Thomas Henry, manager. Keywords: theatre, literature and literary reference, aristocracy, family rel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Jul 1854
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1 item