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1511. Add MS 52983 V

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‘Annie Monksworth, or, The inheritress of a sister’s shame’, drama in two acts by W. Seaman. Licence sent 14 July 1859 for performance at the Britannia. Keywords: sisters, land, tenants, celebrations, wills, appearance, attempted murder, madhouses, London, India, police, babies, poison, secr...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Jul 1859
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1 item

1512. Add MS 52983 W

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‘The children in the woods, or, The fairy birds of the forest’, extravaganza in one act. Licence sent 18 July 1859 for performance at the Adelphi. MS signed Henry J. Byron but attributed to E. L. Blanchard in Nicoll. Numerous cuts and additions in ink. Some actors' names pencilled in next t...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jul 1859
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1 item

1513. Add MS 52983 X

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Index. ff. 1.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1859
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1 item

1514. Add MS 52984 A

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‘The divorce, or, The old love and the new’, drama in three acts by W. Bertin. Licence sent 20 July 1859 for performance at the City of London. Signed Johnson and Cohen on front cover. Based on the serial ‘The divorce’, by Lady Clara Cavendish, published in Reynolds’s Miscellany, starting 19...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jul 1859
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1 item

1515. Add MS 52984 A-W

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Lord Chamberlain's Plays, 1852 - 1866. July– September 1859.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1859-Sep 1859
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23 items

1516. Add MS 52984 B

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‘An old offender’, comic drama in two acts by J. R. Planché. Licence sent 22 July 1859 for performance at the Adelphi. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 41, no. 615. Keywords: aristocracy, Early Modern settings, inheritance, wards, robbers, magistrates, legends, courtship, letters, disguise. ff. 58...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Jul 1859
Extent:
1 item

1517. Add MS 52984 C

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‘Never despair’, opera in one act by H. Drayton, music by F. J. Duggan. Licence sent 26 July 1859 for performance at the Adelphi. Printed words for songs pasted into the MS Keywords: musicians, opera setting, disguise, orphans, Venice, Marseilles, secret marriage, abduction, prison, fathers...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jul 1859
Extent:
1 item

1518. Add MS 52984 D

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I vespri Siciliani, opera in five acts by Giuseppe Verdi, with libretto in Italian by Ettore Caimi (translated from the French libretto of E. Scribe and C. Duveyrier). Printed. Italian with English translation on facing page. Licence sent 27 July 1859 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Dr...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Jul 1859
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1 item

1519. Add MS 52984 E

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‘Third class and first class, or, The career of a widow’s son’, drama in two acts by W. Seaman. Licence sent 28 July 1859 for performance at the Britannia. Keywords railways, pedlars, celebrations, sailors, poison, class contrast, madness, sea settings, Japan, boats, disguise, volcanoes, gam...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Jul 1859
Extent:
1 item

1520. Add MS 52984 F

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Dinorah, or, Le pardon de Ploërmel, opera in three acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer, libretto by J. Barbier and M. Carré. Printed. Italian with English translation on facing pages. Date of licence given in LCO Day Book Add. 52703 as 31 July 1859 for performance at Covent Garden. Front cover missing...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Jul 1859
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1 item