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1. Add MS 53041 A

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Title:
'Arrah-na-Pogue, or, The Wicklow wedding', by D. Boucicault.
Scope & Content:
Drama in three acts. Licence sent 31 March 1865 for performance at the Princess's. The name of the dramatist is not recorded on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to D. Boucicault, noting further that the play had previously been performed in Dublin on 7 November 1864. The play was also p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1865
Extent:

140 folios.

2. Add MS 53041 B

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Title:
'Pan, or, The loves of Echo and Narcissus', by H. J. Byron.
Scope & Content:
Burlesque in one act. Licence sent 5 April 1865 for performance at the Adelphi. The name B. Webster [Benjamin Webster] noted above the details of the theatre on folio 1. The play was also published by Lacy's (vol 66).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1865
Extent:

50 folios.

3. Add MS 53041 C

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Title:
'Pirithous, the son of Ixion', by F. C. Burnand.
Scope & Content:
Extravaganza. Licence sent 7 April 1865 for performance at the Royalty. Two copies of the play are included, one printed and one in manuscript. Folios 1-25 printed by Thomas Hailes Lacy, 89 Strand. (n.d.). A cast list including the names of the actors, among them Harriet Pelham and Lydia Maitlan...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1865
Extent:

86 folios.

4. Add MS 53041 D

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Title:
'The volcano of Italy, or, A fugitive's perils', by C. H. Hazlewood.
Scope & Content:
Drama in four acts. Licence sent 7 April 1865 for performance at the Britannia. Samuel Lane noted as the theatre proprietor on folio 1. The attribution of the play to C. H. Hazlewood is taken from Nicoll, the name of the dramatist not being recorded on the script.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1865
Extent:

31 folios.

5. Add MS 53041 E

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Title:
'La Somnambula', by H. J. Byron.
Scope & Content:
Burlesque extravaganza. Licence sent 16 April 1865 for performance at the Prince of Wales's. The lessee of the theatre noted as C. J. James (Charles James James) on folio 1, together with the date of the play's intended performance - Saturday 15 April 1865. MS in two hands. Nicoll lists the play...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1865
Extent:

29 folios.

6. Add MS 53041 F

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Title:
'The demon of darkness', by W. Travers.
Scope & Content:
Drama in three acts. Licence sent 12 April 1865 for performance at the Victoria. The names of the theatre lessees noted as Messrs [Frederick] Frampton and Fenton on folio 1, together with the date of the play's intended performance - Easter Monday, 17 April 1865. MS in two hands. The attribution...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1865
Extent:

122 folios.

7. Add MS 53041 G

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Title:
'Calypso and Telemachus'.
Scope & Content:
Burlesque. Licence sent 12 April 1865 for performance at Sadler's Wells. A note from Robert Edgar to William Bodham Donne, dated 8 April 1865, states that 'with your kind permission the accompanying burlesque [...] will be produced at the above theatre on Saturday fifteenth day of April 1865'. T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1865
Extent:

16 folios.

8. Add MS 53041 H

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Title:
'Fate'.
Scope & Content:
Described as a 'military drama in three acts' on folio 1. Licence sent 12 April 1865 for performance at Astley's. E. T. Smith noted as the theatre proprietor on folio 1, together with the date of the play's intended performance - Easter Monday, 17 April 1865. The name of the dramatist is not rec...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1865
Extent:

26 folios.

9. Add MS 53041 I

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Title:
Ulysses, or, The Iron-clad Warrior and the Little Tug of War, by F. C. Burnand.
Scope & Content:
Burlesque. Licence sent 17 April 1865 for performance at St James's. Printed by Thomas Hailes Lacy, 89 Strand (n.d.). Lacy's Acting Edition No 980. A cast list with the names of the actors taking the roles, including Miss Charlotte Saunders and Mr Henry James Montague (Henry James Mann), on foli...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1865
Extent:

21 folios.

10. Add MS 53041 J

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Title:
'One tree hill', by H. T. Craven.
Scope & Content:
Drama in two acts. Licence sent 13 April 1865 for performance at the Strand. Dramatis personae together with the surnames of the actors taking the roles, the playwright among them, on folio 1v. The play was also published by Lacy's (vol 66).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1865
Extent:

57 folios.