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1521. Add MS 52984 G

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‘One touch of nature’, drama in one act by B. N. Webster. Licence sent 5 August 1859 for performance at the Adelphi. Nicoll cites an unverified Lacy’s edition. Keywords: servants, female actors, drama production, copyists, courtship, fathers. ff. 13. Benjamin Nottingham Webster, actor, th...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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5 Aug 1859
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1522. Add MS 52984 H

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Prison and palace, comic drama in two acts by J. Palgrave Simpson. Licence sent 5 August 1859 for performance at the Canterbury. Printed for private circulation in an edition of Lacy’s. Back cover signed Hon. S.(?) Ponsonby. First performed at Thurloe Place West, Brompton, February, 1853. ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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5 Aug 1859
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1523. Add MS 52984 I

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‘Martha, or, Richmond market’, petite drama in two acts. Licence sent 12 August 1859 for performance at the Britannia. Cover signed Samuel Lane, proprietor. Translated and adapted from the opera by Flotow. See also Add. 52975 G and 52976 E. Keywords: German influence, urban/rural contrast...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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12 Aug 1859
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1524. Add MS 52984 J

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‘Bertha Gray’, drama in two acts. Licence sent 27 August 1859 for performance at the Standard. MS copied by two different hands. Keywords: workhouses, poverty, upper-class characters, lower-class characters, milliners, cooks, orphans, family relationships, death, forgery, pictures, music. ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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27 Aug 1859
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1525. Add MS 52984 K

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‘The incendiaries, or, The haunted manor’, drama in two acts. Licence sent 29 August 1859 for performance at the Britannia. Cover signed Samuel Lane, proprietor. Based on the serial ‘The incendiaries, or, The haunted manor’, by Malcolm J. Errym, published in Reynolds’s Miscellany, commencing ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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29 Aug 1859
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1526. Add MS 52984 L

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‘The compact’, drama in three acts. Licence sent 31 August 1859 for performance at the Victoria. Signed J. Towers. See Add. 52984 N. Keywords: English Civil War dramas, Dutch characters and settings, Jews, gambling, devils, kidnapping, prison, execution, weddings, incest, family relationsh...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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31 Aug 1859
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1527. Add MS 52984 M

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‘The goose with the golden eggs’, farce in one act by A. Mayhew and H. S. Edwards. Licence sent 31 August 1859 for performance at the Strand. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 44, no. 654. Keywords: lawyers, clerks, courtship, women reading, food and eating, inheritance, family relationships, betti...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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31 Aug 1859
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1 item

1528. Add MS 52984 N

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‘The angel of darkness’, drama in three acts by George Conquest. Licence sent 16 September 1859 for performance at the Grecian 26 September 1859. Signed B. O. Conquest, proprietor.and manager. Some actors' names pencilled next to list of dramatis personae. Additional text in pencil. See als...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
16 Sep 1859
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1529. Add MS 52984 O

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‘The rifle and how to use it’, farce in one act by J. V. Bridgeman. Licence sent 16 September 1859 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 42, no. 623. Keywords: Clapham, volunteers, marital relationships, drink and drunkenness, police, tailors. ff. 31. ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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16 Sep 1859
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1530. Add MS 52984 P

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‘Love and fortune’, dramatic tableau in one act by J. R. Planché. Licence sent 20 September 1859 for performance at the Princess’s on 24 September 1859. Inside cover signed Augustus Harris. Contains words for songs and some pencilled-in stage directions. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 42, no. 62...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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20 Sep 1859
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1 item