Manuscripts
Harlequin and Poor Robin; or, The House That Jack Built. Pantomime, 22 scenes. Charles Farley (?)
- Description
Application Dec. 4, 1823, Charles Kemble, C.G. Prod. Dec. 26.
MS: dated by Larpent Dec. 5; songs and some dialogue only. Comp. Songs, Chorusses, &c....in Harlequin and Poor Robin, 1823 (K-D 536): a few discrepancies.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 2388
- 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.
