Manuscripts
A Loyal, Comic, and Masonic Olio
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A Loyal Effusion [in Honor of His Majesty's Birthday]. Occasional piece, 1 act. Charles Dibdin
Manuscripts
No application. Prod. C.G., June 4, 1794. MS: dated 1794; headed A Loyal Effusion, Consisting of Dialogue Music & Spectacle to conclude with a Song & Chorus in honor of his Majesty's Birth-day written and composed by Mr. Dibdin. J.P.C. in B.D.: The date ought to be 1794 [B.D. gives it 1797] and Larpent enters it in his license-book on 29 May 1794-His copy was also dated 1794.
LA 1030
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St. Margaret's Cave. Play, 5 acts. George Charles Carr
Manuscripts
No application. [1804?] MS: prologue and epilogue. J.P.C. in B.D.: Larpents Copy was in the hand writing of the author who thus inscribed it on the cover. 'Written by George Charles Carr of the Theatres Royal York and Hull-John Wilkinson Esq manager.' It was licensed 30th. Decr. 1804. [The original cover, here referred to, has been removed from the MS.]
LA 1432
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The Pharo Table. Dialogue and songs. Comedy, 3 acts. From Susannah Centlivre, The Gamester
Manuscripts
Application n.d. [Mar., 1789], Thomas Harris, C.G. Prod. (as The Faro Table) Apr. 4, 1789. MS: notice states, The following Dialogue & Songs are in [tended?] as the Alteration from a Comedy of Five Acts call'd The Gamester written by Mrs. Centlivre, into a Comedy of Three Acts call'd the Pharo Table...; dated, by Larpent(?), March 1789. J.P.C. in B.D.: Some new songs as well as new dialogues were added and were sent for Licence in March 1789.
LA 820
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The Soldier's Opera. Comic opera, 2 acts. Peter Ewing
Manuscripts
No application. [1791?] MS: title-page states, Written by Captain P Ewing Marines The Music by Dibdin; MS is signed at end, Peter Ewing Capt: of Marines The 2d Day of April 1791. Comp. [1792] (K-D 298): printed version longer than MS. J.P.C. in B.D.: ...it seems doubtful whether it was not performed, although there is no Managers letter with the MS.
LA 930
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Angelina. [Walcot Castle.] Musical drama, 2 acts. Mary Goldsmith (?)
Manuscripts
No application. Prod. Margate (?), 1804 (?). MS: previous title, Walcot Castle, erased (but so listed in B.C.). J.P.C. in B.D.: Larpent licensed it [Mary Goldsmith's Angelina] to Wilmot Wells Manager of the Margate Theatre 25 August 1804.
LA 1431
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Jack the Giant Killer. Pantomime, 1 act
Manuscripts
No application. Prod. Lyceum (?), Aug. 13, 1809 (?). MS: contains songs and some dialogue.
LA 1587