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Manuscripts
The Frolics of an Hour. Musical interlude, 1 act
- Description
No application. Prod. C.G., June 16, 1795.
Printed copy, 1795: dated, by Larpent, Covent Garden June 7th. 1795-; MS corrections; occasional address deleted. Comp. 1795 (K-D 356): different edition but same press and date; the Larpent copy is apparently earlier, as some of the MS corrections are printed in the K-D copy; it contains songs not in K-D copy, and a different cast.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 1089
- 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).
