Manuscripts
The Hue and Cry. Opera, 2 acts. James C. Cross, from Elizabeth Inchbald
- Description
No application. Prod. (as An Escape into Prison) C.G., Nov. 13, 1797.
MS: dated, by Larpent, C.G., Oct. 11; cast.
See LA 900, which is substantially the same, except without songs.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 1184
- 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.
