'The secret passion', drama in four acts. Licence sent 7 February 1858 for performance the same day at the Marylebone Theatre. The four acts entitled successively 'Don Sallustre', 'The Spanish queen', 'Alvar Coelho' and 'The lion and the tiger'. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipulati...
'Yankee courtship', farce in one act. Licence sent 12 February 1858 for performance at the Adelphi 15 February 1858. Keywords: science and technology, English characters, America, age and ageing, Connecticut, Christians and Christianity, impersonation. ff. 22.
'The gambler's wife', melodrama in two acts. Licence sent 13 February 1858 for performance at the Britannia Saloon 13 February 1858. Cover signed Samuel Lane, proprietor. Last page is a fragment inscribed 'W. B. Donne, Esq, 9 The Grove, Blackheath, SE'. Keywords: gambling, debt and its conse...
'Harry Hawser, or, The rocks and shoals in the voyage of life', drama in two acts. Licence sent 26 January 1858 for performance at the City of London 26 January 1858. Keywords: nautical interest, supernatural, family relationships, crime, dance, murder. ff. 30.
'Right and money', 'tale of the old and new year' in two acts. Licence sent 7 February 1858 for performance at the Surrey. Cover signed Messrs. Bears names of Messrs Shepherd and Creswick. Songs included in MS. LCO Day Book Add. 52703 records the stipulation that passages about marriage as ...
'Kate of Dover, or, The old spade guinea', drama in two acts. Licence sent 11 January 1858 for performance at the Victoria 11 January 1858. Request for licence written out by Isaac Cohen but signed J. Towers. First page of each act signed J. Bradshaw. Diagrams included. "M. Henderson, Fair...
'Lovers' amazements', comedy in three acts by Leigh Hunt. Printed, with MS additions. Licence sent 13 January 1858 for performance at the Lyceum. Text of the play is printed in narrow columns and mounted on sheets of pale blue paper, with extensive MS annotations. That the copyist is/was fe...
'The Jibbenainosay, or, The white horse of Nick of the woods', romantic equestrian spectacle in three acts. Licence sent 13 February 1858 for performance at Astley's Amphitheatre 15 February 1858. Cover signed William Cooke, lessee and manager, and W. West, stage manager. Not listed in Nicol...