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Container Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 52984 A-W

11. Add MS 52984 K

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‘The incendiaries, or, The haunted manor’, drama in two acts. Licence sent 29 August 1859 for performance at the Britannia. Cover signed Samuel Lane, proprietor. Based on the serial ‘The incendiaries, or, The haunted manor’, by Malcolm J. Errym, published in Reynolds’s Miscellany, commencing ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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29 Aug 1859
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1 item

12. Add MS 52984 L

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‘The compact’, drama in three acts. Licence sent 31 August 1859 for performance at the Victoria. Signed J. Towers. See Add. 52984 N. Keywords: English Civil War dramas, Dutch characters and settings, Jews, gambling, devils, kidnapping, prison, execution, weddings, incest, family relationsh...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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31 Aug 1859
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1 item

13. Add MS 52984 M

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‘The goose with the golden eggs’, farce in one act by A. Mayhew and H. S. Edwards. Licence sent 31 August 1859 for performance at the Strand. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 44, no. 654. Keywords: lawyers, clerks, courtship, women reading, food and eating, inheritance, family relationships, betti...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
31 Aug 1859
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1 item

14. Add MS 52984 N

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‘The angel of darkness’, drama in three acts by George Conquest. Licence sent 16 September 1859 for performance at the Grecian 26 September 1859. Signed B. O. Conquest, proprietor.and manager. Some actors' names pencilled next to list of dramatis personae. Additional text in pencil. See als...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
16 Sep 1859
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1 item

15. Add MS 52984 O

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‘The rifle and how to use it’, farce in one act by J. V. Bridgeman. Licence sent 16 September 1859 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 42, no. 623. Keywords: Clapham, volunteers, marital relationships, drink and drunkenness, police, tailors. ff. 31. ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
16 Sep 1859
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1 item

16. Add MS 52984 P

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‘Love and fortune’, dramatic tableau in one act by J. R. Planché. Licence sent 20 September 1859 for performance at the Princess’s on 24 September 1859. Inside cover signed Augustus Harris. Contains words for songs and some pencilled-in stage directions. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 42, no. 62...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
20 Sep 1859
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1 item

17. Add MS 52984 Q

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‘Ivy Hall’, drama in two acts by John Oxenford. Licence sent 21 September 1859 for performance at the Princess’s on 24 September 1859. Inside cover signed Augustus Harris. Signed E. and J. Hastings, copyists. Copied in more than one hand. Some actors’ names (including Henry Irving’s) penci...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Sep 1859
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1 item

18. Add MS 52984 R

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‘A poor man’s trials, or, Life as it is’, drama in two acts. Licence sent 21 September 1859 for performance at the Britannia. Cover signed Samuel Lane, proprietor. Listed in Nicoll as ‘The poor carpenter and his family’. Keywords: class conflicts, lower-class characters, upper-class charact...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Sep 1859
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1 item

19. Add MS 52984 S

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‘The bridal of Beatrix’ (altered from ‘Navarro’), drama in three acts. Licence sent 23 September 1859 for performance at the Surrey. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipulation that all oaths be omitted. Keywords: Early modern settings, nobility, Spanish settings, weddings, Catholicism, ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Sep 1859
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1 item

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‘The railroad of life, or, A parliamentary express’, drama in two acts by J. B. Johnstone. Licence sent 23 September 1859 for performance at the Effingham. Keywords: gipsies, family relationships, widows, servants, poverty, popular song, Portsmouth, trains and rail travel, ships as settings,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Sep 1859
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1 item