Manuscripts
The Black Forest. Dramatic romance, 3 acts. Samuel Birch
- Description
No application. Prod. (as Albert and Adelaide) C.G., Dec. 11, 1798.
MS: dated Nov. 17; cast. Comp. Airs, Chorusses, &c., &c., in Albert & Adelaide; or, The Victim of Constancy, 1798 (Dev 8vo 68): several discrepancies; songs, only, printed.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 1236
- 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.
