Manuscripts
The Eccentric Lover. Comedy, 5 acts. Richard Cumberland
- Description
No application. Prod. C.G., Apr. 30, 1798.
MS: endorsed C.G., and dated by Larpent Apr., 1798; two copies, each, of prologue and epilogue. Comp. The Posthumous Dramatic Works of Richard Cumberland, 1813 (121215): virtually the same.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 1211
- 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).
- Associated organization
- Great Britain.
