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1. Add MS 53006 A

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'In to win, or, The jockey's stratagem' ('How to win'), farce in one act by J. T. Tindale. Licence sent 8 August 1861 for performance at the Queen's on 14 August 1861. Entitled 'How to win', on the front cover, signed C. J. James. MS written in more than one hand. Hand of J. T. Tindale for ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
8 Aug 1861
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1 item

2. Add MS 53006 B

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'The usurer, or, The life of a vagrant' (altered from 'The usurer, or, A struggle for life') ('The moneylender, or, The life of a vagrant'), drama in two acts by Nelson Lee. Licence sent 13 August 1861 for performance at the City of London. Original title, 'The usurer, or, A struggle for life...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
13 Aug 1861
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1 item

3. Add MS 53006 C

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'Woman, or, Love against the world', comedy in four acts by Edmund Falconer. Licence sent 15 August 1861 for performance at the Lyceum. Signed Edmund Falconer, lessee. MS written in more than one hand. Cuts and amendments in ink. Keywords: orphans, debt, engagements, shipwreck, water scene...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
15 Aug 1861
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1 item

4. Add MS 53006 D

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'The woman in white', drama in two acts. Licence sent 19 August 1861 for performance at Sadlers Wells. "Newly adapted from portions of Wilkie Collins' work", on cover of Act Two. Final page signed Miss Caroline Lucrezia Hill, Royal Sadlers Wells Theatre, 14 August 1862. Based on Wilkie Coll...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
19 Aug 1861
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1 item

5. Add MS 53006 E

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'The soft sex', comedy in three acts by C. J. Mathews. Licence sent 27 August 1861 for performance at the Haymarket on 31 August. Cover signed Thoms. T. Pugh, under-prompter. Stage manager's cues in pencil, cuts in ink. Actors’ names listed in pencil next to dramatis personæ. Keywords: fli...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
27 Aug 1861
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1 item

6. Add MS 53006 F

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'The fetch, or, The onconvaneance (sic) of a single life' ('The fetches'), farce in one act by Edmund Falconer. Licence sent 28 August 1861 for performance at the Lyceum on 28 August. Signed Edmund Falconer, lessee. Entitled 'The fetches', in Nicoll. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stip...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1861
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1 item

7. Add MS 53006 G

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'The dead hand, or, The secret of the iron cabinet', drama in a prologue and one act by William Travers. Licence sent 28 August 1861 for performance at the Marylebone. Keywords: Germany, letters, poison, murder, doctors, forgery, eviction, wills, inheritance, blackmail, eavesdropping, tableau...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1861
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1 item

8. Add MS 53006 H

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'The idiot of the mountain', drama in three acts by W. E. Suter. Licence sent 2 September 1861 for performance at the Surrey on 7 September 1861. Cues underlined in red ink. Adapted from the French of MM. Eugène Grangé and 'Lambert Thiboust' (i.e. P. A. A. Thiboust). Contains words for song...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
2 Sep 1861
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1 item

9. Add MS 53006 I

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'Piquillo Alliago, or, The adventurer', drama in three acts by Charles Webb. Licence sent 3 September 1861 for performance at the Grecian on 5 September 1861. Signed B. Conquest, manager. Actors’ names listed next to dramatis personæ. Rough pencil sketch of scene on endpaper of Act II. Ent...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Sep 1861
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1 item

10. Add MS 53006 J

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Shakespeare's dream, or, A night in fairyland, operetta translated by Mary Maynard (for the music by Bennett Gilbert) with additional stanzas for music by Herbert Wilson. Printed (Merser and Gardner, 1861). Licence sent 3 September 1861 for performance at the Surrey on 7 September 1861. Tra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Sep 1861
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1 item