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1. Add MS 52984 A

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‘The divorce, or, The old love and the new’, drama in three acts by W. Bertin. Licence sent 20 July 1859 for performance at the City of London. Signed Johnson and Cohen on front cover. Based on the serial ‘The divorce’, by Lady Clara Cavendish, published in Reynolds’s Miscellany, starting 19...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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20 Jul 1859
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1 item

2. Add MS 52984 B

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‘An old offender’, comic drama in two acts by J. R. Planché. Licence sent 22 July 1859 for performance at the Adelphi. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 41, no. 615. Keywords: aristocracy, Early Modern settings, inheritance, wards, robbers, magistrates, legends, courtship, letters, disguise. ff. 58...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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22 Jul 1859
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1 item

3. Add MS 52984 C

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‘Never despair’, opera in one act by H. Drayton, music by F. J. Duggan. Licence sent 26 July 1859 for performance at the Adelphi. Printed words for songs pasted into the MS Keywords: musicians, opera setting, disguise, orphans, Venice, Marseilles, secret marriage, abduction, prison, fathers...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
26 Jul 1859
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1 item

4. Add MS 52984 D

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I vespri Siciliani, opera in five acts by Giuseppe Verdi, with libretto in Italian by Ettore Caimi (translated from the French libretto of E. Scribe and C. Duveyrier). Printed. Italian with English translation on facing page. Licence sent 27 July 1859 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Dr...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
27 Jul 1859
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1 item

5. Add MS 52984 E

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‘Third class and first class, or, The career of a widow’s son’, drama in two acts by W. Seaman. Licence sent 28 July 1859 for performance at the Britannia. Keywords railways, pedlars, celebrations, sailors, poison, class contrast, madness, sea settings, Japan, boats, disguise, volcanoes, gam...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Jul 1859
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1 item

6. Add MS 52984 F

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Dinorah, or, Le pardon de Ploërmel, opera in three acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer, libretto by J. Barbier and M. Carré. Printed. Italian with English translation on facing pages. Date of licence given in LCO Day Book Add. 52703 as 31 July 1859 for performance at Covent Garden. Front cover missing...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Jul 1859
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1 item

7. Add MS 52984 G

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‘One touch of nature’, drama in one act by B. N. Webster. Licence sent 5 August 1859 for performance at the Adelphi. Nicoll cites an unverified Lacy’s edition. Keywords: servants, female actors, drama production, copyists, courtship, fathers. ff. 13. Benjamin Nottingham Webster, actor, th...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Aug 1859
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1 item

8. Add MS 52984 H

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Prison and palace, comic drama in two acts by J. Palgrave Simpson. Licence sent 5 August 1859 for performance at the Canterbury. Printed for private circulation in an edition of Lacy’s. Back cover signed Hon. S.(?) Ponsonby. First performed at Thurloe Place West, Brompton, February, 1853. ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Aug 1859
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1 item

9. Add MS 52984 I

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‘Martha, or, Richmond market’, petite drama in two acts. Licence sent 12 August 1859 for performance at the Britannia. Cover signed Samuel Lane, proprietor. Translated and adapted from the opera by Flotow. See also Add. 52975 G and 52976 E. Keywords: German influence, urban/rural contrast...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Aug 1859
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1 item

10. Add MS 52984 J

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‘Bertha Gray’, drama in two acts. Licence sent 27 August 1859 for performance at the Standard. MS copied by two different hands. Keywords: workhouses, poverty, upper-class characters, lower-class characters, milliners, cooks, orphans, family relationships, death, forgery, pictures, music. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Aug 1859
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1 item