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8641. Add MS 52990 I

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'No. 49', an 'entirely new and original burletta', by Frederic Lawrence. Licence sent 29 February 1860 for performance at the St. James's. Cuts and amendments made in pencil. Contains words to songs. Keywords: Richmond, upper-class characters, servants, courtship, amateur theatricals, barri...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Feb 1860
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1 item

8642. Add MS 52991 E

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'117 Arundel Street, Strand' (altered from 'Batchelors lodgings' (sic) and 'Honi soit qui mal y pense'), comedietta in one act by H. R. Addison. Licence sent 20 March 1860 for performance at the Lyceum. Numerous cuts and amendments made in ink. The original title 'Batchelors lodging' has the...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Mar 1860
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1 item

8643. Add MS 52998 F

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'Love and lucre' (altered from 'Daddy Skinflint'), drama in two acts from the French by Robert Soutar. Licence sent 23 November 1860 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Manchester. Original title crossed out and amended in ink, as is reference to the Princess's Theatre. Cuts and amendments...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Nov 1860
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1 item

8644. Add MS 52999 T

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'Queen Ladybird and her children, or, Harlequin and a house on fire', pantomime. Licence sent 24 December 1860 for performance at the Haymarket on 26 December. Includes comic scenes. Signed Thomas Pugh, under-prompter. Written in more than one hand, some cues underlined in red ink. ff. 37...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Dec 1860
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1 item

8645. Add MS 53006 K

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'The midnight spectre!!!, or, The fatal secret!', 'a Richardsonian' melo-drama in one act by Nelson Lee the younger. Licence sent 3 September 1861 for performance at the Adelphi. "For Bill. Upon this occasion only will be performed a mysterious Richardsonian drama of intense thrilling intere...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Sep 1861
Extent:
1 item

8646. Add MS 53013 W

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Everyday occurrences, protean comedy by 'Captain Morton Price' (i.e. Captain Horton Rhys). Printed. Licence sent 26 April 1862 to be performed at Sadlers Wells on 3 May 1862. ff. 11. Captain Horton Rhys, called 'Morton Price', writer of plays: Plays by, submitted: 1858-1863: Partly printed.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Apr 1862
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1 item

8647. Add MS 53028 W

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'Harlequin Sinbad the sailor!', pantomime by E. L. L. Blanchard. Licence sent 24 December 1863 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Includes comic scenes written in different hand. ff. 53. Edward Litt Leman Blanchard, called 'Francisco Frost'; writer: Plays by, submitted for l...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Dec 1863
Extent:
1 item

8648. Add MS 53047 O

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'Jack Straw and King Nunky Flunkey, or, Harlequin cock a doodle doo and the funny old woman of Lambeth Walk'.
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Pantomime. Licence sent 21 December 1865 for performance at the Bower. The name of the dramatist is not noted on the script and Nicoll, listing the play under the title 'Jack Straw King Munkey Punkey', lists the author as unknown.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1865
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18 folios.

8649. Add MS 53089 R

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'The veiled prophet of Khorassan, or, The maniac, the mystery and the Malediction', by Miss H. L. Walford.
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Burlesque. Licence sent 15 November 1870 for performance at the Gallery of Illustration. LCO Day Book (Add MS 53704) asks for puns on the names of various politicians to be omitted.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1870
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37 folios.

8650. Add MS 53029 R

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'The outcasts', by C. H. Hazlewood.
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Drama in three acts. Licence sent 9 February for performance at the Victoria. The intended date of performance noted as Saturday 13 February 1864 on folio 1. LCO Day Book (Add MS 53703) asks for a playful reference to Queen Victoria and the washing bills at Buckingham Palace be omitted in perfor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1864
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128 folios.