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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 52929-53708

41. Add MS 52930 E

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‘Dick Fly by Night and Dare Devil Dan, or, The leap for life’, drama in two acts by H. Young. Licence sent 26 February 1852 for performance at the Bower Saloon 3 March 1852. Title page contains a list of plays by the same author, including ‘Aminta’ (Add. 52929 E). Keywords: crime, poverty, d...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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26 Feb 1852
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1 item

42. Add MS 52930 F

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‘A matrimonial prospectus’, farce in one act by J. P. Simpson. Licence sent 27 February 1852 for performance at the Strand 4 March 1852. Published as Matrimonial prospectuses in Lacy's, vol. 6, no. 81. Keywords: the press, bachelors, lodgers and boarding houses, servants, debt and its conseq...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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27 Feb 1852
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1 item

43. Add MS 52930 G

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‘No. 3 Fig Tree Court, Temple, or, Us and our clerks’, farce in one act by ‘John Roakes’ (i.e., Tom Taylor). Licence sent 26 February 1852 for performance at the Princess’s 6 March 1852. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 6, no. 80. Keywords: lodgers and boarding houses, law and the legal profession,...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
26 Feb 1852
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1 item

44. Add MS 52930 H

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‘An address, expressly for Court Loyal Exchange, to be spoken by Mr. Milborne, written by Nelson Lee on behalf of the Ancient Order of Foresters.’ Licence sent 26 February 1852 for performance at the City of London 2 March 1852. Keywords: philanthropy, poverty. f. 1. Richard Nelson Lee, act...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
26 Feb 1852
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1 item

45. Add MS 52930 I

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‘The last of the fairies’ (‘Alice Brooke’, ‘The fairy of the castle’), drama in two acts by Edward Fitzball. Licence sent 28 February 1852 for performance at the Royal Olympic 4 March 1852. Signed by manager, W. Farren. Names of actors pencilled in on dramatis personae. Revisions throughout....
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
28 Feb 1852
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1 item

46. Add MS 52930 J

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‘The Siccilian bride’ [sic], opera in four acts: libretto by Alfred Bunn ‘after St. Georges’, i.e., J. H. Vernoy de Saint-Georges (the music by Michael Balfe.) Licence sent 1 March 1852 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 6 March 1852. Signed by J. W. Norton. Another name is li...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
1 Mar 1852
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1 item

47. Add MS 52930 K

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‘My lover the captain’, farce in one act by J. Edward Thompson. Licence sent 5 March 1852 for performance at the Strand 8 March 1852. Keywords: suburbs, doctors and medicine, science and technology, servants, military, nautical drama, Egypt, disguise, children, cross-dressing, poverty ff. 14. ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Mar 1852
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1 item

48. Add MS 52930 L

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‘White magic’, comic opera in two acts by H. F. Chorley. Licence sent 5 March 1852 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket 8 March 1852. Manager: Benjamin Webster. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that the words ‘gospel true’ be omitted. Keywords: French influence, di...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Mar 1852
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1 item

49. Add MS 52930 M

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‘James the Sixth, or, The Gowrie plot’, tragedy in five acts by the Rev. James White. Licence sent 5 March 1852 for performance at Sadler’s Wells 6 March 1852. Paper of different sizes used for different acts. Keywords: military, Scottish characters, political revolution, English Civil War, ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
5 Mar 1852
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1 item

50. Add MS 52930 N

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‘Timoleon’, tragedy in five acts by R. W. Jameson. Licence sent 9 March 1852 for performance at the Adelphi, Edinburgh 9 March 1852. Title page states that play is the property of Robert Henry Wyndham, sent to Lord Chamberlain via Henry Butler, London theatrical agent. Text very elaborately ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Mar 1852
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1 item