Manuscripts
Procida; or, Sicilian Vespers. Tragedy, 5 acts. Felicia Dorothea Hemans
- Description
Application Oct. 20, 1823, Charles Kemble, C.G. Prod. (as The Vespers of Palermo) Dec. 12.
MS: dated by Larpent Oct. 23; prologue and epilogue give title as Procida; or, Vespers of Palermo. Comp. The Vespers of Palermo, 1823 (K-D 534): MS prologue and epilogue not printed; numerous lines and two complete scenes printed not in MS; other, slighter discrepancies.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 2375
- 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).
