Manuscripts
The Siege of Berwick. Tragedy, 4 acts. Edward Jerningham
- Description
No application. Prod. C.G., Nov. 13, 1793.
MS: dated, by Larpent, C.G., Nov. 10; two prologues (one also used with The World in a Village [No. 997]) and epilogue. Comp. 1794 (K-D 265): last scene quite different; otherwise practically identical.
J.P.C. in B.D.: In Larpents MS Copy she 'stabs herself & dies.' (Concerning the two endings, see B.D.)
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 994
- 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).
