Manuscripts
The Majician [No Conjuror]. Comic opera, 3 acts. Robert Merry
- Description
No application. Prod. C.G., Feb. 2, 1792.
MS: dated, by Larpent, C.G., Jan., 1792; signed Robt. Merry; long canceled passages; cast. Comp. The Airs, Duets, Glees, Chorusses, &c., in the Comic Opera of The Magician No Conjurer, 1792 (Dev 8v0 66); only slight discrepancies.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 933
- 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).
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