Address for Opening the New Theatre, Drury Lane, on the 16th of October, 1822. George Colman, the Younger

Description

No application. Spoken Oct. 16, 1822.

MS. (Spoken by Mr. Terry [as Sir Peter Teazle].) Comp. printing in R. B. Peake, Memoirs of the Colman Family [1841]: substantially the same.

Type

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Production date

1737-1824.

Call number

LA 2309

Creator

Larpent, John (1741-1824)(Opens in new tab)

Provenance

Purchased with the Ellesmere collection from John Francis Granville Scroop Egerton, 3rd Earl of Ellesmere, through the agency of George D. Smith and Sotheby's of London, 1917. The collection was purchased by John Payne Collier. In 1853, he sold it to Francis Egerton, Viscount Brackley and 1st Earl of Ellesmere (1800-1857).

Associated organization

Great Britain.

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