Manuscripts

Killing No Murder. Farce, 2 acts. Theodore Edward Hook

Description

No application. Prod. H2, Aug. 21, 1809.

Printed copy, 1809, together with a Preface, and the scene suppressed by order of the Lord Chamberlain: MS notes and corrections; marginal comments on Preface, by Larpent(?); notes compare this copy with MS copy (No. 1582, q.v.); this text incorporates most of the corrections made in MS LA 1582, and has the suppressed scene printed at the end.

Type

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Production date

1737-1824.

Call number

LA 1589

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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