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San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Assumptions! Musical entertainment, 2 acts. From Susannah Centlivre
- Description
Application Aug. 23, 1823, Samuel James Arnold, Lyceum. Prod. (as The Guardians Outwitted; or, A Bold Stroke for a Wife) Sept. 1.
MS: title-page states, founded on Mrs. Centlivre's Comedy of A Bold Stroke for a Wife.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 2364
- 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).
