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11. Add MS 53074 A

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Title:
'Gertrude's money box', by H. Lemon.
Scope & Content:
Serio-comic sketch in one act. Licence sent 9 January 1869 for performance at Sadler's Wells. The script, which is dated May 21 1868 on folio 48, contains numerous amendments and deletions throughout. The play was also published by Lacy's (vol 83).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1869
Extent:

48 folios.

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Title:
'Destiny, or, A fight with fate', by E. Towers.
Scope & Content:
Drama in four acts. Licence sent 20 February 1869 for performance at the East London. The name Morris Abrahams noted on folio 1. The name of the author is not recorded on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to E. Towers.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1869
Extent:

88 folios.

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Title:
'The snowdrift, or, The cross on the shoe', by A. Coates.
Scope & Content:
Drama in two acts. Licence sent 22 January 1869 for performance at the Britannia. Samuel Lane noted as the theatre proprietor on folio 1. The name of the author is not recorded on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to Alfred Coates under the title 'The snow drift, or, The cross on the boo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1869
Extent:

16 folios.

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Title:
'The Shinghawn, or, Ailleen the Rose of Kilkenny', by H. J. O'Donnell.
Scope & Content:
Drama in three acts. Licence sent 23 February 1869 for performance at St James's. Folios i and ii consist of letters from the playwright Hugh Joseph O'Donnell, although seemingly in different hands, to William Bodham Donne enclosing payment in one instance and asking for the licence to be forwar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1869
Extent:

ii + 47 folios.

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Title:
'For sale', by J. T. Douglass.
Scope & Content:
Drama in three acts. Licence sent 1 February 1869 for performance at the Standard. The name of the author is not noted on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to J. T. Douglass.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1869
Extent:

35 folios.

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Title:
'The little man in green, or, The volunteer review', by T. J. Williams.
Scope & Content:
Farce in one act. Licence sent 22 February 1869 for performance at the Lyceum. Dramatis personae with the names of selected actors added in pencil on folio 2. The name of the copyist is noted as Edward Hastings on folio 38. The name of the author is not recorded on the script but Nicoll attribut...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1869
Extent:

38 folios.

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Title:
'The red hands', by G. A. À Beckett.
Scope & Content:
Drama in three acts and a prologue. Licence sent 27 January 1869 for performance at the St James's. A letter to Mr Donne from the theatre manager George (illegible) accompanies the script, dated 27 January 1869, and regretting that the name of the deity has been made use of, and various curses h...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1869
Extent:

i + 38 folios.

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Title:
Mrs Beflat's Blunder and Leah, A Hearty Joke in a Cab Age, by W. Routledge.
Scope & Content:
Two plays, a farce and a burlesque. Licence sent 18 January 1868 for performance at the Gallery of Illustration. Printed (n.d.). The performances noted as taking place on Saturday, January 23 1869 and being 'For the benefit of a lady in reduced circumstances' on folio 1. Dramatis personae togeth...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1869
Extent:

26 folios.

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Title:
'Brown and the Brahmins, or, Captain Pop and the Princess Pretty Eyes', by R. Reece.
Scope & Content:
Burlesque. Licence sent 13 January 1869 for performance at the Globe. The name of the author is not recorded on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to R. Reece. The play was also published by Lacy's (vol 82).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1869
Extent:

52 folios.

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Title:
'When the clock strikes nine, or, Ruth the mountain rose', by C. H. Hazlewood.
Scope & Content:
Drama in two acts. Licence sent 12 February 1869 for performance at the Britannia. Samuel Lane noted as the theatre proprietor on folio 1. The name of the author is not noted on the script but Nicoll attributes the play to C. H. Hazlewood.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1869
Extent:

22 folios.