Manuscripts
The Whim. Comedy, 3 acts. Eglantine, Lady Wallace
- Description
No application. [Published after license had been refused.]
Printed copy, Margate, 1795: with an Address to the Public, upon the arbitrary and unjust Aspersion of the Licenser against its political sentiments. Offered to be acted..., but refused the Royal License; passages in the Address underscored in MS. Comp. same ed. (Dev 8vo 21): identical.
See LA 1093.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 1104
- 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).
