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Container Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 53038 A-GG

21. Add MS 53038 N

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Title:
'Harlequin Goody Two Shoes, or, Robin the ploughboy and the castle of the seven passions', by E. Towers.
Scope & Content:
Pantomime. Licence sent 20 December 1864 for performance at the Effingham. The attribution of the play to E. Towers is taken from Nicoll, the name of the dramatist not being recorded on the script.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1864
Extent:

27 folios.

22. Add MS 53038 O

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Title:
'Dame Durden and her five servant maids, or, Harlequin Robert and Richard were two pretty men', by J. T. Douglass.
Scope & Content:
Pantomime. Licence sent 20 December 1864 for performance at the Standard, the date of the play's intended performance noted as 24 December 1864 on folio 19v. Comic scenes in a separate hand contained in folios 20-23.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1864
Extent:

23 folios.

23. Add MS 53038 P

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Title:
'King Pumpkin, or, Harlequin King Richard ye Lion Heart', by M. Dutnall.
Scope & Content:
Pantomime. Licence sent 20 December 1864 for performance at the Surrey. Comic scenes included separately in folios 38-47. The name of the dramatist is not noted on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to M. Dutnall under the title'Harlequin King Pumpkin'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1864
Extent:

47 folios.

24. Add MS 53038 Q

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Title:
'Sir Hugh Myddelton, or, The fairy of the chrystal stream and the baliff's daughter of Islington', by C. Millward.
Scope & Content:
Pantomime. Licence sent 20 December 1864 for performance at Sadler's Wells. The name of the theatre manager, Robert Edgar, is noted on folio 1 together with the proposed date for the play's performance - 24 December 1864. The spelling 'Myddelton' in MS appears as 'Myddleton' in Nicoll and 'Middl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1864
Extent:

11 folios.

25. Add MS 53038 R

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Title:
'Baron Munchausen, or, Harlequin and the mountains of the moon', by F. Fenton and W. R. Osman.
Scope & Content:
Pantomime. Licence sent 20 December 1864 for performance at the Victoria. Messrs [Frederick] Frampton and Fenton noted as lessees of the theatre on folio 1. The LCO Day Book (Add MS 53703) asks for a reference to the 'only death that draws from life' be omitted in performance. The attribution of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1864
Extent:

116 folios.

26. Add MS 53038 S

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Title:
'A lesson in love', by C. S. Cheltnam.
Scope & Content:
Comedy in three acts. Licence sent 19 December 1864 for performance at St James's. MS in two separate hands. The play was also published by Lacy's (Vol 64).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1864
Extent:

54 folios.

27. Add MS 53038 T

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Title:
'Cupid and Psyche', by F. C. Burnand.
Scope & Content:
Burlesque in one act. Licence sent 21 December 1864 for performance at the Olympic. The name of the dramatist is not noted on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to F. C. Burnand under the title 'Cupid and Psyche, or, Beautiful as a butterfly'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1864
Extent:

48 folios.

28. Add MS 53038 U

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Title:
'Hercules and Omphale', by W. Brough.
Scope & Content:
Burlesque. Licence sent 21 December 1864 for performance at St James's. The name of the dramatist is not noted on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to W. Brough under the title 'Hercules and Omphale, or, The power of love'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1864
Extent:

30 folios.

29. Add MS 53038 V

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Title:
'The magic horse', by H. Bellingham and W. Best.
Scope & Content:
Extravaganza in one act. Licence sent 21 December 1864 for performance at the Princess's. The names of the dramatists are not noted on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to Bellingham and Best under the title'The magic horse and the ice-maiden princess'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1864
Extent:

27 folios.

30. Add MS 53038 W

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Title:
'The King of the Golden Valley, or, Harlequin Tom Tidler, Little Boy Blue and the old woman who lived under the hill', by Nelson Lee Jnr.
Scope & Content:
Pantomime in one act. Licence sent 21 December 1864 for performance at the City of London. The name Nelson Lee noted below the details of the theatre on folio 1. LCO Day Book (Add MS 53703) lists the play with the spelling of 'Tidler' altered to 'Tiddler'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1864
Extent:

37 folios.