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Manuscripts
The Two Farmers. Musical entertainment, 2 acts. Thomas John Dibdin
- Description
No application. [C.G., Oct. 10, 1800.] Not produced.
MS: cover endorsed, by Larpent, Withdrawn; several long passages deleted; cast.
J.P.C. in B.D.: It was sent to Larpent on 10th. Octr. 1800 & he marked upon his copy Withdrawn-Nevertheless all the parts were cast including Munden, Emery, Fawcett, Incledon, Johnstone, &c. Larpent found it highly objectionable on account of what is said regarding monopolizing corn by framers & others.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 1301
- 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).
