Manuscripts
The Chelsea Pensioner. Comic Opera, 2 acts. Charles Dibdin
- Description
Application (with LA 481) undated, Thomas Harris, C.G. Prod. May 6, 1779.
MS: a number of corrections and deletions. Comp. 1st ed., 1779 (K-D 422): slight differences.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 482
- 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.
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