Manuscripts
The Mysterious Husband. Play, 5 acts. Richard Cumberland
- Description
No application. Prod. C.G., Jan. 28, 1783.
MS: a number of passages marked for omission, by Examiner(?); prologue and epilogue; cast. Comp. 1783 (K-D 103): slight differences; canceled passages in MS generally printed.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 615
- 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.
