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Container Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 52968 A-AA

21. Add MS 52968 T

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'Quadroon, the slave bride, or, The tree cavern', drama in two acts. Licence sent 15 October 1857 for performance at the Victoria the same day. Request for licence written by Isaac Cohen (copyist) for J. J. Towers. LCO Day Book Add. 53073 records the stipulation that an attempted rape scene ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Oct 1857
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1 item

22. Add MS 52968 U

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'Deadly reports', comedietta in one act by J. P. Simpson. Licence sent 19 October 1857 for performance at the Olympic 26 October 1857. Cover signed ‘Lessees Messrs. Robson and W.S. Emden.’ Keywords: the supernatural, widows, ghosts, law and the legal profession, military. ff. 17. London; S...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
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19 Oct 1857
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1 item

23. Add MS 52968 V

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'The drapery question, or, Who's for India', apropos sketch in one act by Charles Selby. Licence sent 24 October 1857 for performance at the Adelphi 28 October 1857. ‘Proprietor, Benjamin Webster’ written on title page. Includes some later additions to text. Includes songs. Keywords: fashio...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Oct 1857
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1 item

24. Add MS 52968 W

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'Pedrillo, or, A search for two fathers', drama in two acts by J. B. Johnstone. Licence sent 24 October 1857 for performance at the Marylebone 16 November 1857. Cover of each act signed J. B. Johnstone. Acts appear to have been posted separately to the Lord Chamberlain’s Office by George Cla...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Oct 1857
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1 item

25. Add MS 52968 X

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'Lime Tree Chateau', drama in three acts. Licence sent 24 October 1857 for performance at the Marylebone the same day. Keywords: aristocracy, French influence, festival and celebration, poverty, Paris, dance, doctors and medicine, sport, entertainment, illness, murder. ff. 49. London; Secul...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
24 Oct 1857
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1 item

26. Add MS 52968 Y

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Crispino e la comare, ‘libretto fantastico-giocoso’ in three acts. Printed. Italian. Licence sent 24 October 1857 for performance at the St James’s. Publisher's list at back. LCO Day Book Add. 53073 records the stipulation that a few phrases be omitted. First performed Cremona, 1855. Key...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
24 Oct 1857
Extent:
1 item

27. Add MS 52968 Z

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Il ritorno di Columella, melodrama buffo in three acts. Printed. Italian. Licence sent 24 October 1857 for performance at the St James’s. Publisher's list at back. Keywords; Italian settings, doctors, servants, peasants, weddings, letters, Padua, familiy relationships, madhouses, madness, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
24 Oct 1857
Extent:
1 item