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8961. Add MS 52964 K

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'Ellie Forrestere', drama in three acts. Licence sent 10 February 1857 for performance at the Victoria 8 February 1857. Request for licence signed J. Johnson Towers. Keywords: nautical interest, orphans, crime, emigration. ff. 36. London; Secular Institutions. Theatres. Victoria Theatre, W...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Feb 1857
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1 item

8962. Add MS 52965 F

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'The strawberry girl, or, Fashion and famine', drama in two acts by C. W. Taylor. Licence sent 1 March 1857 for performance at the Strand 2 March 1857. For other versions, see Add. 52952 D. Does not appear to be listed in the LCO Day Book Add. 53073. Keywords: children, poverty, family rel...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Mar 1857
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1 item

8963. Add MS 52965 Q

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'Joseph Chavigny, or, Under the thumb', drama in three acts by Watts Phillips. Licence sent 6 April 1857 for performance at the Adelphi 11 May 1857. Request for licence signed Benjamin Webster. Songs included in MS. LCO Day Book Add. 53073 records the stipulation that all oaths and the name...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Apr 1857
Extent:
1 item

8964. Add MS 52966 N

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'Red hand of Fountainbleau', drama in two acts. Licence sent 27 May 1857 for performance at the Victoria the same day. Request for licence signed by J. Johnson Towers. LCO Day Book Add. 53073 records the stipulation that all oaths be omitted. Keywords: French influence, crime, Paris, festiv...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 May 1857
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1 item

8965. Add MS 52966 R

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La traviata, or, The blighted one, opera in five acts. Printed. Licence sent 2 June 1857 for performance at the Surrey. For other versions, see Add. 52967 T, 52968 B, and 52968 D. Keywords: French influence, entertainment, fallen women, literature and literary reference, festival and celeb...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jun 1857
Extent:
1 item

8966. Add MS 52967 J

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'First and second floor', farce in one act. Licence sent 26 June 1857 for performance at the Theatre Royal Haymarket 29 June 1857. Actors’ names included alongside dramatis personae. Keywords: servants, travel, working women, fashion, flirtation. ff. 30. London; Secular Institutions. Theat...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jun 1857
Extent:
1 item

8967. Add MS 52967 W

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'Eliza Fenning', drama in two acts. Licence sent 8 August 1857 for performance at the Victoria 31 August 1857. Request for licence signed by J. Towers. Text written in two different hands. Keywords: orphans, servants, poisoning, landlords and tenants, poverty, doctors and medicine, murder, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Aug 1857
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1 item

8968. Add MS 52968 H

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'Halfpenny child, or, The archives of the poor' ('The token, or, Lenza, the child of the wanderer'), drama in two acts. Licence sent 18 September 1857 for performance at the Victoria ‘Monday next’. Request for licence signed by J. Towers. LCO Day Book Add. 53073 includes a letter requesting ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Sep 1857
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1 item

8969. Add MS 52968 T

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'Quadroon, the slave bride, or, The tree cavern', drama in two acts. Licence sent 15 October 1857 for performance at the Victoria the same day. Request for licence written by Isaac Cohen (copyist) for J. J. Towers. LCO Day Book Add. 53073 records the stipulation that an attempted rape scene ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Oct 1857
Extent:
1 item

8970. Add MS 52972 K

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'Samuel in search of himself', farce in one act by J. S. Coyne and H. C. Coape. Licence sent 5 March 1858 for performance at the Princess's 5 April 1858. Speaking cues and stage directions underlined in red. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipulation that all oaths be omitted. Keywords...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Mar 1858
Extent:
1 item