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11. Add MS 52984 A

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‘The divorce, or, The old love and the new’, drama in three acts by W. Bertin. Licence sent 20 July 1859 for performance at the City of London. Signed Johnson and Cohen on front cover. Based on the serial ‘The divorce’, by Lady Clara Cavendish, published in Reynolds’s Miscellany, starting 19...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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20 Jul 1859
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1 item

12. Add MS 52984 C

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‘Never despair’, opera in one act by H. Drayton, music by F. J. Duggan. Licence sent 26 July 1859 for performance at the Adelphi. Printed words for songs pasted into the MS Keywords: musicians, opera setting, disguise, orphans, Venice, Marseilles, secret marriage, abduction, prison, fathers...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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26 Jul 1859
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1 item

13. Add MS 52984 F

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Dinorah, or, Le pardon de Ploërmel, opera in three acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer, libretto by J. Barbier and M. Carré. Printed. Italian with English translation on facing pages. Date of licence given in LCO Day Book Add. 52703 as 31 July 1859 for performance at Covent Garden. Front cover missing...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
31 Jul 1859
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1 item

14. 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
Date Range:
27 Aug 1859
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1 item

15. 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
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Sep 1859
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1 item

16. Add MS 52984 Q

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‘Ivy Hall’, drama in two acts by John Oxenford. Licence sent 21 September 1859 for performance at the Princess’s on 24 September 1859. Inside cover signed Augustus Harris. Signed E. and J. Hastings, copyists. Copied in more than one hand. Some actors’ names (including Henry Irving’s) penci...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Sep 1859
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1 item

17. Add MS 52984 V

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‘Love and hunger’, farce in one act by J. M. Morton. Licence sent 26 September 1859 for performance at the Adelphi. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 42, no. 624. Differences between Lacy’s text and MS text. Keywords: inns, Reading, servants, travel, food and eating, family relationships, engageme...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Sep 1859
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1 item

18. 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
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Aug 1859
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1 item

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‘Third class and first class, or, The career of a widow’s son’, drama in two acts by W. Seaman. Licence sent 28 July 1859 for performance at the Britannia. Keywords railways, pedlars, celebrations, sailors, poison, class contrast, madness, sea settings, Japan, boats, disguise, volcanoes, gam...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Jul 1859
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1 item

20. 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. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Sep 1859
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1 item