This is an interim version of our Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue while we continue to recover from a cyber-attack.
This catalogue is currently browse-only. The collection item request form is not available at the moment but will be reopened from Monday 15 December. Find out more about our current collection access suspension.
La partie de piquet, comédie-vaudeville in one act by ‘MM. N. Fournier and Meyer’ (i.e. L.- P. N. Fournier and H. H. Meyer). Printed. French. Licence sent 26 April 1854 for performance at the St. James’s. Original first performance at the Théâtre du Gymnase 5 February 1854. LCO Day Book Ad...
Deux dames au violon, ‘pochade’ in one act by ‘MM. Dupeuty et Cormon’ (i.e. C. D. Dupeuty and P. E. Piestre). Printed. French. Licence sent 15 June 1854 for performance at the Soho Theatre. Original first performance at the Théâtre des Variétés 11 May 1841. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records ...
Un mari qui prend du ventre, comédie-vaudeville in one act by ‘MM. Labiche et Marc-Michel’ (i.e., E. Labiche and M. A. A. Michel). Printed (Paris; Bibliothèque dramatique; théâtre moderne, 1854). French. Licence sent 6 November 1854 for performance at the Soho 9 November 1854. Original firs...
Sous un bec de gaz, scenes de la vie nocturne en une nuit, vaudeville in one act by ‘MM. Ch. Cabot, A. de Jallais et Lelarge’ (i.e. Charles Cabot, Amédée de Jallais, and Léon Lalarge). Printed (1854). French. Licence sent 6 November 1854 for performance at the Soho the same day. Original fi...
‘Our wife! or, The rose of Amiens’, drama in two acts by J. M. Morton. Licence sent 14 August 1856 for performance at the Princess’s 18 November 1856. Songs included in MS. Keywords: French influence, dance, fashion, aristocracy. ff. 34. Charles A. Somerset, dramatist: Birmingham; City of....
Une tasse de thé, comedy in one act by Ch. Nuitter and J. Derley. Printed. French. Licence sent 6 November 1860 . First performed at the Vaudeville, Paris, 28 September 1860. Publisher's catalogue attached (Michel Lévy, Paris, August 1860). Publisher's advertisement on back cover. Not lis...
'Truth and fiction', drama in two acts by T. J. Williams and A. G. Harris. Licence sent 17 May 1861 for performance at the Princess's on 18 May. Signed A. Harris, lessee. Actors’ names listed next to dramatis personæ. Cuts, amendments and stage manager's cues in pencil and ink. Cues underl...
'The wooden spoon maker', drama in one act. Licence sent 9 May 1863 for performance at the Adelphi. Name of B. Webster, the theatre manager, noted on script. Nicoll attributes title to Andrew Halliday and William Brough. ff. 15. Andrew Halliday Duff, called 'Andrew Halliday'; essayist an...
'Brother Sam', by J. Oxenford, E. A. Southern and J. B. Buckstone.
Scope & Content:
Comedy in three acts. Licence sent 22 May 1865 for performance at the Haymarket. MS in several hands. The attribution of the play to Oxenford, Southern and Buckstone is taken from Nicoll, the names of the dramatists not being noted on the script.
'The king's rival', drama in five acts by 'John Roakes' (i.e., Tom Taylor) and Charles Reade. Licence sent 16 September 1854 for performance at the St. James’s 25 September 1854. Signed by Laura Seymour. Revisions throughout. LCO Day Book Add. 53703 records the stipulation that a passage ab...