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1. Add MS 53056 A-AA

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Title:
Lord Chamberlain's Plays: December 1866. (Box 177).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1866
Extent:
27 items (26 plays and 1 index).

2. Add MS 53056 AA

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Title:
Index.
Scope & Content:
List of plays submitted to the Lord Chamberlain's Office during December 1866, together with the names of the theatres of intended representation. In the hand of William Bodham Donne, Examiner of Plays.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1866
Extent:
1 folio.

3. Add MS 53056 N

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Title:
'Number nip'.
Scope & Content:
Pantomime. Licence sent 20 December 1866 for performance at Drury Lane. Comic scenes included separately as folios 37-67. LCO Day Book (Add MS 53704) lists the alternative title 'Harlequin and the Gnome King of the giant mountain'. The name of the dramatist is not recorded on the script and the p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1866
Extent:
67 folios.

4. Add MS 53056 G

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Title:
'Littletops Christmas party'.
Scope & Content:
Farce in one act. Licence sent 20 December 1866 for performance at the Haymarket. Dramatis personae on folio 1v with the names of some of the performers added in pencil. The MS contains numerous corrections and deletions throughout. The name of the dramatist is not recorded on the script and Nico...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1866
Extent:
22 folios.

5. Add MS 53056 H

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Title:
'Sylvius, or, The peril, the pelf and the pearl'.
Scope & Content:
Described as 'a little burlesque with a little plot and little jokes for little performers to amuse little spectators' on folio 1. Licence sent 20 December 1866 for performance at the Haymarket. The date of intended performance being noted as 16 December 1866. The name of the copyist recorded as...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Dec 1866
Extent:

41 folios

6. Add MS 53056 D

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Title:
'A, apple pie, or, Harlequin Jack-in-the-box and the Little Boy Blue'.
Scope & Content:
Pantomime. Licence sent 18 December 1866 for performance at the Surrey. Messrs Shepherd and Creswick noteed as the theatre managers on folio 1. The name of the author is not recorded on the script and the play is not listed in Nicoll.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1866
Extent:
34 folios.

7. Add MS 53056 T

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Title:
'Harlequin Fun, or, the judgement of fancy and the nursery rhymes of olden time'.
Scope & Content:
Pantomime. Licence sent 21 December 1866 for performance at the Effingham. Printed (folios 1-12) by E. J. Bath, 26 High Street Whitechapel (n.d.). Folios 13-17 are manuscript and contain the comic scenes. Morris Abrahams noted as the theatre manager on folio 13. The name of the dramatist is not r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1866
Extent:
17 folios.

8. Add MS 53056 I

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Title:
'A mere child', by J. W. Marston.
Scope & Content:
Comedietta in one act. Licence sent 18 December 1866 for performance at the Haymarket. The date of intended performance noted as 26 December 1866 on folio 1. Dramatis personae together with the names of the actors on folio 2. The script contains numerous annotations and corrections throughout.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1866
Extent:

40 folios

9. Add MS 53056 P

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Title:
'Ding dong bell', by R. Soutar.
Scope & Content:
Pantomime. Licence sent 21 December 1866 for performance at the Marylebone. J. Arnold Cave noted as the theatre manager on folio 1. LCO Day Book (Add MS 53704) and Nicoll both list the play with the title 'Ding, Dong, Bell, pussy's in the well, or, Harlequin, who killed Cock Robin?'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1866
Extent:

49 folios.

10. Add MS 53056 W

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Title:
'Rouge et noir', by H. T. Leslie.
Scope & Content:
Drama in three acts and two stages. Licence sent 23 December 1866 for performance at the Lyceum. MS in several different hands. The attribution of authorship is taken from Nicoll, the name of the dramatist not being noted on the script.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1866
Extent:

166 folios.