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1. Add MS 53000 A

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'Ruy Blas', drama in three acts. Licence sent 7 January 1861 for performance at the Grecian. Signed B. Conquest, manager. For other versions, see Add. 52995 W, 52998 V, and 53008 A. ff. 40.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jan 1861
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 53000 B

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'A message from the sea', drama in two acts. Licence sent 7 January 1861 for performance at the Britannia. Name of Samuel Lane, theatre proprietor, noted on the cover. Based on the story by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and other authors in collaboration, in All the Year Round, Christmas N...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jan 1861
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 53000 C

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'The woman in white', drama in three acts and an introduction adapted and arranged by W. Sidney. Licence sent 11 January 1861 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Norwich. Based on Wilkie Collins’ The woman in white, published 1860. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipulation that all o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Jan 1861
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 53000 D

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'London vice and London virtue, or, Life, love and fortune', drama in two acts by H. Saville. Licence sent 11 January 1861 for performance 21 January 1861 at the Victoria. Cover signed Isaac Cohen for Joseph Johnson Towers. MS written in more than one hand. ff. 33. Henry Faucit Saville, wr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Jan 1861
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 53000 E

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'Reuben Blight, or, Something to live for', drama in two acts by J. Paulton. Licence sent 11 January 1861 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Wolverhampton. Cues underlined in red ink. Final stage positions of characters indicated on last page. Nicoll incorrectly attributes this drama to ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Jan 1861
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 53000 F

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'Changed for the better' (altered from 'An equal match'), comedietta in one act. Licence sent 14 January 1861 for performance at the Olympic. Listed in LCO Day Book Add. 52703 under the original title, 'An equal match', crossed out and amended on the cover ff. 46.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Jan 1861
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 53000 G

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'The silver wedding', dramatic sketch in two acts by J. P. Wooler. Licence sent 22 January 1861 for performance at the Strand. Not listed in LCO Day Book Add. 52703. ff. 29. John Pratt Wooler, called 'John Pratt'; writer of plays: Plays by, submitted: 1853-1866.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Jan 1861
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 53000 H

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'Old Trusty', comic drama in one act by 'Walter Gordon' (i.e. William Aylmer Gowing). Licence sent 22 January 1861 for performance at the Olympic. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 50, no. 741. ff. 42. William Aylmer Gowing, called 'Walter Gordon', writer of plays: Plays by, submitted: 1857-1867.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Jan 1861
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 53000 I

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'The sacred trust, or, The field of death', drama in three acts by Adolphus Faucquez. Licence sent 24 January 1861 for performance at the Victoria. Note of application for licence signed 'Isaac Cohen', for Joseph Johnson Towers, theatre manager. ff. 41. Adolphe Faucquez, writer of plays: Pl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jan 1861
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 53000 J

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'Emmiline, or, The child of fortune', drama in two acts by W. E. Suter. Licence sent 26 January 1861 for performance at the Effingham. Front cover and cover of Act II signed Morris Abrahams and W. E. Suter. Cited as 'Emmeline' in both Nicoll and LCO Day Book Add. 52703. MS consistently repl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jan 1861
Extent:
1 item