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Manuscripts
Mrs. Smith; or, The Wife and the Widow. Piece, 1 act. John Howard Payne
- Description
No application. Prod. H2, June 18, 1823.
MS: dated by Larpent June 10; one speech and several phrases deleted by Examiner.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 2356
- 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).
