'The graven image, or, The artist of Rome', drama in three acts by T. Cheetham. Licence sent 28 February 1862 for performance at the Grecian. ff. 53. T. Cheetham: Play by, submitted for licence: 1862.
'The four stages of life, or, The youth, the lover, the husband and the father', drama in four acts. Licence sent 28 March 1862 for performance at the Surrey. ff. 33.
'Fashionable intelligence', comedy in three acts by John Oxenford. Licence sent 14 March 1862 for performance at the Olympic. Cuts in ink. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records that, "the title of this comedy was subsequently changed to that of 'The world of fashion' ". From the French drama 'Les...
'Our Hussars' (altered from 'Our Lancers') farce in one act by W. E. Suter. Licence sent 11 March 1862 to be performed at the Queen's on 15 March. Cover signed by both C. J. James and W. E. Suter. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipulation that a line of text be omitted. ff. 21. Willi...
'Calderon, the King's favourite, or, The Jesuit's fate', drama in three acts by Thompson Townsend. Licence sent 3 March 1862 to be performed at the Queen's on 8 March 1862. Each act bears the author’s signature, with the cover signed C. S. James. ff. 49. William Thompson Townsend, dramatist...
'The heather flower, or, Snapdragon the highwayman and the mysteries of Grassdale Manor', drama in four acts by T. P. Mead. Licence sent 29 March 1862 for performance at the Grecian. Part of title crossed out and illegible. ff. 50. Thomas Preston Mead, writer of plays: Play by, submitted:...
'Happy hours, or, Sunshine in season', vaudeville in one act by E. H. Tannett. Licence sent 30 March 1862 for performance at the Adelphi, Liverpool. "Written expressly for and sole copy-right of Mr. Thomas Richardson, Adelphi Theatre, Liverpool”. Actors’ names listed next to dramatis personæ...
'The wife's portrait, or, A household picture under two lights', drama in two acts by J. W. Marston. Licence sent 6 March 1862 for performance at the Haymarket. Cuts and stage positions indicated in pencil. Published in Lacy’s, vol. 54, no. 806. ff. 55. John Westland Marston, dramatic poet...
'Black Band, or, The companions of midnight', drama in three acts adapted by Robert Clark Allen. Licence sent 8 March 1862 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Bolton. Each act records ‘by the author R. Clark Allen, comedian’. MS written in more than one hand. For other versions, see Add. ...
'The ghost hunter, or, The colleen dhas', drama in three acts by George Conquest. Licence sent 14 March 1862 for performance at the Grecian. Based on the novel The ghost-hunter and his family, by John Banim (Belfast; Simms and Mc Intyre, 1852.) ff. 36. George Augustus Conquest, acrobat, pan...