Manuscripts
The Merry Mourners. Farce, 2 acts. John O'Keeffe
- Description
No application. Prod. (as Modern Antiques) C.G., Mar. 14, 1791.
MS: dated by Larpent Mar. 10. Comp. Modern Antiques; or, The Merry Mourners, in The Dramatic Works of John O'Keeffe, 1798 (147094): slight differences in dialogue.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 893
- 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.
