Manuscripts
The Inquiry; or, Cause of the Present High Price of Provisions. Prelude, 1 act
- Description
No application. [1785?]
MS: some corrections.
J.P.C. in B.D.: The Inquiry...is in my hands-It is a ridicule of the Corporation of London during a time of Scarcity and the date of 1785 is mentioned in it. It is a MS. and perhaps never was acted, although my copy is in the hand writing of the copyist of the theatre. It has no author's name.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 716
- 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).
