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10671. Add MS 52950 T

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'Remember the grotto', farce in one act by Edward Thomson. Licence sent 15 November 1854 for performance at the Marylebone 20 November 1854. Signed by J. William Wallack, manager. Keywords: travel, working class characters, servants, orphans, natural phenomena, elopement. ff. 28. Edward Th...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
15 Nov 1854
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1 item

10672. Add MS 52950 U

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'The sentinel of the Alma', farce in one act by Samuel Lover. Licence sent 16 November 1854 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket 18 November 1854. Request for licence written and signed by J. B. Buckstone. Songs included in MS. Keywords: Russian Empire, Crimea, nautical interest...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
16 Nov 1854
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1 item

10673. Add MS 52950 V

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'The railway belle', farce in one act by Mark Lemon. Licence sent 16 November 1854 for performance at the Adelphi 20 November 1854. Revisions throughout. Published in Lacy's, vol. 17, no. 247. Keywords: trains and rail travel, food and dining. ff. 47. Mark Lemon, editor of 'Punch': 'The r...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Nov 1854
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1 item

10674. Add MS 52952 B

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'Leon, or, The iron mask', historical romance in five acts by W. B. Bernard. Licence sent 10 January 1855 for performance at the Marylebone 5 February 1855. Keywords: French influence, aristocracy, literature and literary reference, festivals and celebration, politicians, family relationships...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
10 Jan 1855
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1 item

10675. Add MS 52953 H

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'The royalist and republican', drama in one act by C. A. Somerset. Licence sent 14 March 1855 for performance at the Grecian Saloon 26 March 1855. Signed by Ro. Conquest, actual and responsible manager. Second signature appears on title page. Listed in Nicoll under ‘unknown authors’; Nicoll...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Mar 1855
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1 item

10676. Add MS 52956 C

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'A sister's wrongs, or, The dark hour before dawn', drama in two acts. Licence sent 8 September 1855 for performance at the Britannia Saloon 8 September 1855. Signed by Samuel Lane, proprietor. Keywords: crime, police, eighteenth-century settings, sport, pubs and inns, aristocracy, literatur...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Sep 1855
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1 item

10677. Add MS 52957 M

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'Harlequin and the ratcatcher's daughter, or, Lily Vite Land and his laughing donkey, or, Old Father Thames of Tiddy Bells Alley and the fairy of the Ruby and Emerald Lane', pantomime by W. Seaman. Licence sent 17 December 1855 for performance at the Bower Saloon 17 December 1855. Nicoll list...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Dec 1855
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1 item

10678. Add MS 52958 A

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‘Urgent private affairs’, farce in one act by J. S. Coyne. Licence sent 5 January 1856 for performance at the Adelphi 7 January 1856. Request for licence written and signed B. Webster. Keywords: doctors and medicine, military, Ratcatcher’s Daughter, working class characters. ff. 32. London...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Jan 1856
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1 item

10679. Add MS 52958 P

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‘The married flirt, or, A conjugal lesson’ (‘Stay at home’), comedy in two acts by Henry Danvers. Licence sent 31 January 1856 for performance at the Olympic 3 July 1856. LCO Day Book Add. 53073 records the stipulation that all oaths be omitted. For another version, see Add. 52960 A. Publis...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Jan 1856
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1 item

10680. Add MS 52959 F

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‘A fascinating individual, or, Too agreeable by half’, farce in one act by Henry Danvers. Licence sent 16 April 1856 for performance at the Olympic 9 June 1856. Letter signed by ‘Mr. J. Linden for Mr. A. Wigan’ bound into MS. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 27, no. 394. Keywords: industrialisatio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Apr 1856
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1 item