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Manuscripts
The Diversions of the Morning. Farce, 2 acts. Samuel Foote
- Description
No application. Prod. D.L., Oct. 17, 1758 (originally, H2, Apr. 22, 1747).
MS: consists of the Lady Pentweazle scene from Act I of Taste, set in a new frame, with Puff omitted; second act contains the burlesque rehearsal. (See Tate Wilkinson, Wandering Patentee [1795], I, 285; IV, 237.)
See LA 93 and 194.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 149
- 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).
