Manuscripts

Epilogue on the Comic Characters of Women. Some Poets say, if such we Poets call. [Joseph Addison's The Drummer.] MS: endorsed [Mrs.?] Pope. Comp. A Prologue on Comic Poetry, and an Epilogue on the Comic Characters of Women, as Spoke at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden [by Mrs. Bland], (131933): identical

Description: (See LA 2480.)
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1753
Call number: LA 2435
Creator: Larpent, John (1741-1824)(Opens in new tab)
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).
Associated organization: Great Britain.
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