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Manuscripts
Two More Slaves; or, The Escape from Brixton. Burlesque parody, 1 act
- Description
Application Nov. 30, 1822, Daniel Egerton, Olympic. Prod. (as The Two Gallows Slaves; or, Escaped from Brixton) Dec. 9.
MS: title-page, dated by Larpent Nov. 30 and Dec. 2, states, Parody on the Two Galley Slaves; earlier title, The Two Gallow's Slaves or the Mill of Brixton, partially deleted.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 2322
- 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).
