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1. Add MS 53045 A

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Title:
Rip van Winkle, by D. Boucicault and J. Jefferson.
Scope & Content:
Drama in three acts. Licence sent 3 September 1865 for performance at the Adelphi. Printed (n.d.) with manuscript additions. The final printed page appears to be missing, with manuscript notes covering the necessary dialogue taking its place. The name B. Webster [Benjamin Webster] is noted on fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1865
Extent:

20 folios.

2. Add MS 53045 B

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Title:
'Poul a Dhoil, or, The fairy man' by C. H. Hazlewood.
Scope & Content:
Drama in two acts. Licence sent 15 September 1865 for performance at the Britannia. Samuel Lane is noted as the theatre proprietor on folio 1. The play was published by Lacy's (vol 77).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1865
Extent:

28 folios.

3. Add MS 53045 C

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Title:
Married in spite of himself, by W. J. Sorrell and A. Thomson.
Scope & Content:
Operetta. Licence sent 21 September 1865 for performance at the Gallery of Illustration. Printed (1865) with manuscript additions. Folio 1 notes 'To be performed for one night only ... for Miss Augusta Thomson's benefit. Thursday Sep 21 1865'. Dramatis personae with manuscript amendments to the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1865
Extent:

8 folios.

4. Add MS 53045 D

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Title:
'Lucia di Lammermoor', by H. J. Byron.
Scope & Content:
Burlesque. Licence sent 21 September 1865 for performance at the Prince of Wales's. The name C. J. James [Charles James James], lessee of the theatre, noted on folio 1, together with the date of proposed performance - September 25 1865.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1865
Extent:

33 folios.

5. Add MS 53045 E

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Title:
'Caught by the cuff', by F. Hay.
Scope & Content:
Farce in one act. Licence sent 21 September 1865 for performance at the Victoria. Date of intended representation noted as September 23 1865 on folio 1. The play was published by Lacy's (vol 67).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1865
Extent:

38 folios.

6. Add MS 53045 F

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Title:
'Tom Sheppard, or, The bright road of honesty and the dark path of crime'.
Scope & Content:
Drama in two acts. Licence sent 23 September 1865 for performance at the Bower. Nicoll lists the play as author unknown but notes a performance subsequent to that at the Bower taking place on 31 May 1866 at the Grecian.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1865
Extent:

37 folios.

7. Add MS 53045 G

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Title:
'The counterfeit', by D. Fisher.
Scope & Content:
Drama in three acts. Licence sent 30 September 1865 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Brighton. 'The plot of this drama is mostly taken from a novel founded on facts by J. C. Jeaffreson. The dialogue of the drama being wholly and entirely original', as noted on folio 1. The LCO Day Book (Add...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1865
Extent:

101 folios.

8. Add MS 53045 H

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Title:
'The lost fortune, or, The story of a pocket book', by A. Faucquez.
Scope & Content:
Drama in three acts. Licence sent 30 September 1865 for performance at the Britannia.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1865
Extent:

19 folios.

9. Add MS 53045 I

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Title:
'The folly fete, or, The May Queen', by E. J. N. Galer.
Scope & Content:
Drama in four acts. Licence sent 3 October 1865 for performance at the Grecian. The name of the actual and responsible theatre manager B. O. Conquest [Benjamin Oliver Conquest] noted on folio 1, together with the date of intended performance - Thursday Oct 12 1865 - and a further alternative tit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1865
Extent:

33 folios.

10. Add MS 53045 J

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Title:
'Jupiter Chuff'.
Scope & Content:
Farce in one act. Licence sent 3 October 1865 for performance at the Grecian. Alternative title 'Gumbo Chuff' crossed through on folio 2. The script is noted as being the property of Dan Leeson whose name also appears in the cast list on folio 3 and in inverted commas on folio 47v. Nicoll lists ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Oct 1865
Extent:

47 folios.