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10821. Add MS 52948 M

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'A night in a churchyard! or, The hag of the hollow!', drama in three acts. Licence sent 28 June 1854 for performance at the Victoria 3 July 1854. Request for licence written and signed by Eliza Vincent. Keywords: castles, sport, animals, disability, the supernatural, age and ageing, pubs and...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
28 Jun 1854
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1 item

10822. Add MS 52949 E

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'Bruin the brave, or, The woodman and his dog', drama in two acts written and adapted by G. D. Pitt. Licence sent 31 August 1854 for performance at the Pavilion the same day. Diagrams included. Keywords: peasants, working class characters, animals, ghosts, police, crime, gypsies, prisons and...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Aug 1854
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1 item

10823. Add MS 52950 I

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'Money and misery, or, High crime and low crime', drama in three acts by John H. Wilkins. Licence sent 31 October 1854 for performance at the City of London the same day. Signed by Messrs. Johnson and Nelson Lee. Keywords: fashion, servants, working women, education, aristocracy, elopement, ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Oct 1854
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1 item

10824. Add MS 52950 L

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'The miser of Shoreditch', drama in two acts by T. P. Prest. Licence sent 31 October 1854 for performance at the Standard 2 November 1854. Signed by John Douglass. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 18, no. 367. Keywords: Early Modern Settings, pubs and inns, drinking and drunkenness, gypsies, serv...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Oct 1854
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1 item

10825. Add MS 52955 R

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'High and low water bell, or, The ebb and flow of fortune' ('High and low water bell, or, The panther of the seas and the ebb and flood of fortune'), drama in two acts. Licence sent 11 September 1855 for performance at the Victoria 17 September 1855. Request for licence written and signed by ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Sep 1855
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1 item

10826. Add MS 52958 C

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‘The wheel of life’, drama in two acts. Licence sent 5 January 1856 for performance at the Britannia Saloon 5 January 1865. Signed Samuel Lane, proprietor. Keywords: food and dining, kidnapping, crime. ff. 26. Hoxton; Middlesex Britannia Theatre alias Britannia Saloon: 'The wheel of life',...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Jan 1856
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1 item

10827. Add MS 52964 J

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'The wreck of the Golden Mary', drama in two acts. Licence sent 10 February 1857 for performance at the City of London the same day. For other versions, see Add. 52964 D and 52964 G. Keywords: nautical interest, murder, children, stagecraft, gold prospecting, Australia. ff. 20. London; Sec...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Feb 1857
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1 item

10828. Add MS 52966 P

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'The son of night, or, Ben Liel', drama in three acts. Licence sent 27 May 1857 for performance at the Victoria the same day. Request for licence signed by J. Johnson Towers. For other versions, see Add. 52962 T and 52965 K. Keywords: mountain settings, Naples, peasants, aristocracy, murder...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 May 1857
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1 item

10829. Add MS 52979 E

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‘The lord and the lout’, drama in three acts, by W. H. Pitt. Licence sent 17 January 1859 for performance at the Victoria on 24 January 1859. Cover signed J. J. Towers. Based on the novel, ‘Transmutation, or, The Lord and the Lout’, by ‘N. or M.’, i.e. Mrs Catherine G. F. Gore, 1854. Keywor...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jan 1859
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1 item

10830. Add MS 52979 S

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‘Will o' the wisp, or, The morass of the murdered’, drama in two acts by William Seaman. Licence sent 18 February 1859 for performance at the Britannia . LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipulation to omit the words ‘Though there he lay till the Judgement Day.’ See also Add. 52980 C. Ke...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Feb 1859
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1 item