Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Roses and Thornes; or, Two Houses under One Roof. Comedy, 5 acts. Joseph Lunn
- Description
Application Mar. 31, 1823, John Fawcett, C.G. Prod. (three-act version) H2, Aug. 24, 1825.
MS: dated C.G., Apr. 1, 1823. Comp. n.d. (Cumberland's British Theatre), 1826: numerous and extensive differences, incidental to reduction of play as printed, to three acts.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 2347
- 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).
