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How Will It End? Comedy, 3 acts

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No application; endorsed, To be Performed at the Theatre-Royal Manchester Messrs. Ward, Lewis, Knight and Banks, Managers. Prod. Manchester, Feb., 1809(?).

MS: prologue and epilogue, latter signed G:M:N: and dated Manchester, Feb. 28, 1809.

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Production date
1737-1824.
Call number
LA 1570
Creator
Larpent, John (1741-1824)(Opens in new tab)
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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