Manuscripts
Marcella. Tragedy, 3 acts. William Hayley
- Description
No application. Prod. C.G., Nov. 10, 1789.
MS: dated Novr. 1789; two copies of prologue, one endorsed Prologue to the Tragedy of Marcella-Covent Garden. Comp. version from Plays of Three Acts, 1784 (Larpent Plays, LA 847): a few discrepancies; prologue not printed.
See LA 847 and J.P.C.'s note thereon.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 849
- 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).
