Manuscripts
The Author on the Wheel; or, A Piece Cut in the Green Room. Entertainment, 1 act
- Description
Application n.d. [Apr. 9, 1785?], Thomas Linley, D.L.
MS: slight revisions.
J.P.C. in B.D.: The Author on the Wheel, a piece cut in the Greenroom was probably played in 1785 as Larpent licensed it on 9th April in that year as appears by his account book-It was only one act. It was sent from the Manager of Drury Lane, Lindly.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 695
- 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).
