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'Tis a Strange World. Comedy, 5 acts. Thomas Holcroft

Description

No application. Prod. (as The Deserted Daughter) C.G., May 2, 1795.

MS: dated, by Larpent, C.G., Apr. 17; several canceled passages; prologue and epilogue; cast. Comp. The Deserted Daughter, 3d ed., 1795 (K-D 357): a few differences.

See LA 1290.

Type
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Production date
1737-1824.
Call number
LA 1077
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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