Manuscripts
The Merry Men of Kent. Comedy, 5 acts
- Description
No application. [1789.]
MS: dated, by Larpent(?), Manchester, 1789.
J.P.C. in B.D.: ...licensed on 23 March 1789 for the Manchester Theatre.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 856
- 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.
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