'Le duel de Benjamin', opérette in one act. French. Licence sent 22 May 1857 for performance at the St. James’s. Title page signed by J. Mitchell. Keywords: French influence, military, duelling, letters. ff. 15.
'The lost child, or, The bereaved wife and mother', in one act. Licence sent 25 May 1857 for performance at the City of London Theatre. ‘Licence copy for George W. Sims’ written on cover. Listed neither in Nicoll nor in the LCO Day Book Add. 53073. Songs included in MS. Keywords: death, mo...
'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...
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...
La rose de Saint-Flour, opérette in one act by Michel Carré (for the music by J. Offenbach). Printed (1856). French. Licence sent 11 June 1857 for performance at the St. James’s. Original first performance at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens 11 June 1856. Title page signed J. Mitchell. P...
'The prince and the fairy', burlesque in one act. Licence sent 27 May 1857 for performance at the Victoria the same day. Request for licence signed by J. Johnson Towers. Songs included in MS. Keywords: festival and celebration, fairies and other supernatural creatures, dance. ff. 13. Lon...
'Rosalie Mortimer, or, Fate and its victims', drama of real life in one act. Licence sent 6 June 1857 for performance at the Britannia the same day. Cover signed Samuel Lane, proprietor. Keywords: land and farming, festival and celebration, murder, children, family relationships, sport, educ...
'A steel hand, and his nine thieves, or, The fairy pool of the giant mountain', original legendary drama in two acts. Licence sent 2 May 1857 for performance at the Britannia 11 May 1857. Keywords: mountain settings, castles, aristocracy, Early Modern settings, German influence, drinking and ...