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Manuscripts
The Peasant Boy; or, Innocence Protected. Operatic drama, 3 acts. William Dimond
- Description
Application Jan. 12, 1812 [1811?], Samuel James Arnold, Lyceum (D.L. Company). Prod. Jan. 31, 1811.
MS: included, Songs Duets &c Not inserted in the Copy of the Opera of The Peasant Boy, dated Jan. 24, and signed by William Powell. Comp. The Peasant Boy, 1811 (K-D 442): slight differences.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 1655
- 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).
