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1121. Add MS 52967 CC

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'How it's to be done', comic drama in two acts. Licence requested for performance on Tuesday, 18 August 1857, but refused. Note on cover states that the MS was referred to the Lord Chamberlain 24 August 1857. Nicoll lists a play of the same title under ‘unknown authors’ with a first performan...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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18 Aug 1857
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1 item

1122. Add MS 52967 D

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'L'orgue de Barbarie', opérette in one act. French. Licence sent 20 June 1857 for performance at the St. James’s. Cover signed J. Mitchell. Does not appear to be listed in LCO Day Book Add. 53073. Keywords: musicians, theatre, French influence, the press. ff. 18. London; Secular Institut...
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Western Manuscripts
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French
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20 Jun 1857
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1 item

1123. Add MS 52967 DD

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Index ff. 1.
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
1857
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1 item

1124. Add MS 52967 E

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'La pomme de Turguie', opéra-bouffe in one act. French. Licence sent 24 June 1857 for performance at the St. James’s. Cover signed J. Mitchell. Keywords: doctors and medicine, French influence, inheritance, landlords and tenants, food and dining. ff. 16. London; Secular Institutions. Thea...
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Western Manuscripts
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French
Date Range:
24 Jun 1857
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1 item

1125. Add MS 52967 F

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Croquefer, ou, Le dernier des Paladins, opérette-bouffe in one act by MM. Jaime et Tréfeu (i.e. P. J. Rousseau and E. V. Tréfeu de Tréval, for the music by J. Offenbach). Printed. French. Licence sent 27 June 1857 for performance at the St. James’s. Original first performance at Théâtre des...
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Western Manuscripts
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French
Date Range:
27 Jun 1857
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1 item

1126. Add MS 52967 G

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'Masaniello', an extravaganza in one act by R. B. Brough. Licence sent 27 June 1857 for performance at the Olympic 2 July 1857. Many revisions in different hands and on different types of paper. Illustration of revolutionaries’ banners included on p. 65. LCO Day Book Add. 53073 records the ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
27 Jun 1857
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1 item

1127. Add MS 52967 H

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'The lighthouse', drama in two acts with a prologue. Acts one and two by Wilkie Collins. Licence sent 1 August 1857 for performance at the Olympic 10 August 1857. Keywords: nautical interest, death, ghosts, dreams, Cornwall, murder, illness. ff. 28. London; Secular Institutions. Theatres. ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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1 Aug 1857
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1 item

1128. Add MS 52967 I

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'Latest from New York' ('Nine points of the law', 'One plague drives out another', A Yankee trap for our old bird', 'Seraphina Serena Sprout'), farce in one act by J. S. Coyne. Licence sent 27 June 1857 for performance at the Adelphi. 'One of the above are the proposed title of the new farce'...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
27 Jun 1857
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1 item

1129. Add MS 52967 J

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'First and second floor', farce in one act. Licence sent 26 June 1857 for performance at the Theatre Royal Haymarket 29 June 1857. Actors’ names included alongside dramatis personae. Keywords: servants, travel, working women, fashion, flirtation. ff. 30. London; Secular Institutions. Theat...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
26 Jun 1857
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1 item

1130. Add MS 52967 K

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'Victims', original comedy in three acts by Tom Taylor. Licence sent 5 July 1857 for performance at the Theatre Royal Haymarket 8 July 1857. Each act appears to have been posted separately. Actors’ names included alongside dramatis personae. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 32, no. 475. Keywords: ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Jul 1857
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1 item