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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.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 1589
- 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).
