Manuscripts
The School for Arrogance. Comedy, 5 acts. Thomas Holcroft
- Description
No application. Prod. C.G., Feb. 4, 1791.
MS: dated by Larpent Feb. 2; numerous corrections, excisions, and revisions; prologue and epilogue; cast. Comp. 2d ed., 1791 (K-D 456): a number of differences; some passages deleted in MS are printed.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 891
- 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).
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