Manuscripts
The Soldier's Opera. Comic opera, 2 acts. Peter Ewing
- Description
No application. [1791?]
MS: title-page states, Written by Captain P Ewing Marines The Music by Dibdin; MS is signed at end, Peter Ewing Capt: of Marines The 2d Day of April 1791. Comp. [1792] (K-D 298): printed version longer than MS.
J.P.C. in B.D.: ...it seems doubtful whether it was not performed, although there is no Managers letter with the MS.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 930
- 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).
