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Manuscripts
The Wise Man of the East. Comedy, 5 acts. Elizabeth Inchbald, from Augustus von Kotzebue
- Description
No application. Prod. C.G., Nov. 30, 1799.
MS: dated C.G., Nov. 14; prologue (by Charles Moore) and epilogue; cast. Comp. 1799 (K-D 354): differs considerably.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 1271
- 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).
