Manuscripts

Bon ton or high life above [the] stairs

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Description: Bound volume containing a handwritten copy of Garrick's play with autograph corrections in Garrick's handwriting.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1775.
Call number: mssHM 185
Creator: Garrick, David (1717-1779)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Acquired from William K. Bixby, 1918.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Bon ton;, or, high life above stairs. A comedy. In two acts. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal, in Drury-Lane

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145231

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Bon Ton; or, High Life above Stairs. Comedy, 3 acts. David Garrick

Manuscripts

The collection consists of official copies of plays submitted for licensing between 1737 and 1824. Most of copies were written by professional copyists. Approximately 95 of the plays submitted were printed texts, either whole or partial. These have been cataloged individually and may be searched in the online catalog.

LA 386

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Paradise Lost

Manuscripts

Two bound volumes containing a manuscript copy of Paradise Lost in the handwriting of Sarah Siddons. Volume 1 is prefaced by a handwritten 22-line eulogistic poem beginning, "Penned by a hand of Elegance and grace ..." by her son Henry Siddons. Volume 1 (199 pages) contains book 1 through book 5, line 720, and volume 2 (242 pages) continues to the end of book 12. The last page of volume 2 contains the note "Many of the learned [?] similes & parts meerly [sic] descriptive and narrative are omitted in this copy, in order to facilitate the reading of the poem aloud."

mssHM 2865

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Walden; or, life in the woods

Manuscripts

Volume 1 [Draft A], late September 1846 to September 1847; Volumes 2-3 [Drafts B-C], mid 1848 to late summer 1849; Volume 4 [Draft D], early 1852 to September 1852; Volume 5 [Draft E], September 1852-1853; Volume 6 [Draft F], late 1853 to early 1854; Volume 7 [Draft G], February and March 1854; Volume 8 [Additional Material], [1854]. The eight manuscript volumes, partly in pencil, include parts of early versions, with some torn pages; the volumes contain substantial corrections and deletions. The work is a memoir of simple living in natural surroundings that includes spiritual discovery, social experiment, and satire; it was written over the course of two years, two months, and two days but Thoreau compressed the time into a single calendar year.

mssHM 924

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The Death of Balder. A Heroic Play with Songs; in three acts

Manuscripts

Also bound in the volume: Balder's Dreams. From the Ancient Norse: a poem (mssHM 14491); a printed copy of the limited issue of the play The Death of Balder.

mssHM 14398

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De Montfort : a tragedy

Manuscripts

Handwritten copy of a revision of Joanna Baillie's play "De Montfort," by Thomas Campbell, with extensive annotations of notes and corrections in the hand of Sarah Siddons. Laid in the front is a proof portrait of Siddons by S. Arlent Edwards, signed by the artist in pencil.

mssHM 32693

Bon ton or high life above [the] stairs

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