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11. Add MS 53006 B

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'The usurer, or, The life of a vagrant' (altered from 'The usurer, or, A struggle for life') ('The moneylender, or, The life of a vagrant'), drama in two acts by Nelson Lee. Licence sent 13 August 1861 for performance at the City of London. Original title, 'The usurer, or, A struggle for life...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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13 Aug 1861
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1 item

12. Add MS 53006 N

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'Riches and poverty, or, A daughter's sacrifice', drama in two acts by A. Faucquez. Licence sent 9 September 1861 for performance at the Britannia. Name of Samuel Lane, theatre proprietor, noted on the script. MS written in more than one hand. Keywords: Paris, poverty, milliners, working me...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
9 Sep 1861
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1 item

13. Add MS 53006 G

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'The dead hand, or, The secret of the iron cabinet', drama in a prologue and one act by William Travers. Licence sent 28 August 1861 for performance at the Marylebone. Keywords: Germany, letters, poison, murder, doctors, forgery, eviction, wills, inheritance, blackmail, eavesdropping, tableau...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1861
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1 item

14. Add MS 53006 E

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'The soft sex', comedy in three acts by C. J. Mathews. Licence sent 27 August 1861 for performance at the Haymarket on 31 August. Cover signed Thoms. T. Pugh, under-prompter. Stage manager's cues in pencil, cuts in ink. Actors’ names listed in pencil next to dramatis personæ. Keywords: fli...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
27 Aug 1861
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1 item

15. Add MS 53006 L

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'A lucky escape', comic drama in one act by C. S. Cheltnam. Licence sent 6 September 1861 for performance at the Strand. Adapted from the French. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 52, no. 772. Keywords: France, early modern Settings, French adaptations, flirtation, disguise, widows, courtship, marit...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
6 Sep 1861
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1 item

16. Add MS 53006 C

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'Woman, or, Love against the world', comedy in four acts by Edmund Falconer. Licence sent 15 August 1861 for performance at the Lyceum. Signed Edmund Falconer, lessee. MS written in more than one hand. Cuts and amendments in ink. Keywords: orphans, debt, engagements, shipwreck, water scene...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
15 Aug 1861
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1 item

17. Add MS 53006 F

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'The fetch, or, The onconvaneance (sic) of a single life' ('The fetches'), farce in one act by Edmund Falconer. Licence sent 28 August 1861 for performance at the Lyceum on 28 August. Signed Edmund Falconer, lessee. Entitled 'The fetches', in Nicoll. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stip...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1861
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1 item

18. Add MS 53006 J

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Shakespeare's dream, or, A night in fairyland, operetta translated by Mary Maynard (for the music by Bennett Gilbert) with additional stanzas for music by Herbert Wilson. Printed (Merser and Gardner, 1861). Licence sent 3 September 1861 for performance at the Surrey on 7 September 1861. Tra...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Sep 1861
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1 item