MS Mus. 1824/2/4/1

Autograph full score, signed and dated, in the form of a set of positive photostats (two pages of score per folio). The file includes, following the score, a typed D'Oyly Carte 'checking note' referring to Cox and Box and to other full score photostat copies in the archive.

(1). Full score (ff. 1-113):

• (f. 1). Title page, in French: 'Ouverture / à la Triumvirette musicale / "Coxe et Boxe" / et "BOUNCER" / composée par / Arthur S. Sullivan / Paris. 23 Juillet 1867. / Hôtel Meurice'.
• (f. 2). No. 1. Allegro Vivace.
• (f. 12). Signed and dated again at the end of the Overture: 'Arthur S. Sullivan / 23 July 1867 / Paris. Hôtel Meurice'.
• (f. 13). No. 2.
• (f. 19). No. 3.
• (f. 49). No. 4.
• (f. 51). No. 5.
• (f. 52). No. 6.
• (f. 66). No. 7.
• (f. 71). No. 8.
• (f. 87). No. 9.
• (f. 104). No. 10. Finale.

(2). Typed note: 'Full score photostats' (f. 114). A checklist of photostat scores held by D'Oyly Carte. Listed: The Grand Duke, Princess Ida, Cox and Box, The Sorcerer, The Pirates of Penzance, Patience, H.M.S. Pinafore, Trial by Jury. Checked, 23 Mar 1993 and 8 Dec 1995. (NB The list is not in complete accord with the D'Oyly Carte archive at the British Library, which lacks photostat scores for The Sorcerer and for Patience.)