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Manuscripts
The Round Tower; or, Irish Fidelity, Songs in. Ballet pantomime. James C. Cross
- Description
No application. Prod. (as The Round Tower; or, The Chieftains of Ireland) C.G., Nov. 24, 1797.
MS: dated by Larpent Nov., 1798 [changed to 1797]; note, C.G., Nov. 17, J. Hill, notifying Examiner for Mr. Lewis that title of the new ballet pantomime, of which I have sent you the Songs, is The Round Tower; or, Irish Fidelity; title inserted on cover by Larpent. Comp. The Round Tower; or, The Chieftains of Ireland, Circusiana, 1809 (K-D 428): a few differences.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 1186
- 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).
