Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Manumission; or, The Soldier's Welcome Home. Comic opera, 3 acts. William Dimond
- Description
Application Jan. 7, 1824, John Fawcett, C.G. Prod. (as The Native Land; or, The Return from Slavery) Feb. 10.
MS. Comp. Native Land, etc., 1824 (K-D 536): differences throughout, chiefly lines printed not in MS.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 2396
- 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).
