Manuscripts
The Road to Ruin. Comedy, 5 acts. Thomas Holcroft
- Description
No application. Prod. C.G., Feb. 18, 1792.
MS: dated by Larpent C Garden. Febry 1792; numerous erasures and corrections; prologue and epilogue; partial cast. Comp. 1792 (K-D 106): no important differences.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 935
- 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.
