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Add MS 52933 M
- Record Id:
- 040-002003847
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-002003834
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000672.0x00026d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 52933 M
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
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‘The writing on the wall’, drama in three acts by J. M. Morton and Thomas Morton. Licence sent 29 July 1852 for performance at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket 2 August 1852. Request for licence written and signed by Benjamin Webster. Extensive revisions in various hands not the work of the Examiner of Plays appear throughout text. Various different types of paper used. Large numbers and prompts such as ‘call’ pencilled in throughout text. Keywords: land and farming, property, doctors and medicine, urban-rural contrast, disabled characters, murder, aristocracy, London, debt and its consequences, death, crime, family relationships, Cornwall, Cornish characters, orphans, dance, natural phenomena, drinking and drunkenness.
ff. 114.
Thomas Morton, the younger; dramatist: John Maddison Morton, dramatist: 'The writing on the wall', drama in three acts by John Maddison Morton and T. Morton the younger: circa 1852.
Thomas Morton, the younger; dramatist: Plays by, submitted: 1852-1859.
John Maddison Morton, dramatist: Plays by, submitted: 1852-1867.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002003716
036-002003834
040-002003847 - Is part of:
- Add MS 52929-53708 : THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S PLAYS AND DAY-BOOKS; 1851-1899, 1824-1903.
Add MS 52933 A-HH : Lord Chamberlain’s Plays, 1852 - 1866. June - September 1852 .
Add MS 52933 M : ‘The writing on the wall’, drama in three acts by J. M. Morton and Thomas Morton. Licence sent 29 July 1852 for performance at… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002003716[0005]/036-002003834[0013]/040-002003847
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 52929-53708
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1852
- End Date:
- 1852
- Date Range:
- 29 Jul 1852
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Morton, John Maddison, playwright, 1811-1891
Morton, Thomas, the younger, dramatist