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Manuscripts
Hernando Cortez; or, The Conquest of Mexico. Opera, 3 acts. James Robinson Planché
- Description
Application Oct. 11, 1823, Charles Kemble, C.G. Prod. (as Cortez; or, The Conquest of Mexico) Nov. 5.
MS: dated by Larpent Oct. 13. Comp. Cortez, etc., n.d. (K-D 534): minor differences.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 2373
- 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).
