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Manuscripts
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Application Feb. 4, 1780, John Kemble for Tate Wilkinson, York. Prod. 1780 (?). MS: some corrections. J.P.C. in B.D.: It is an alteration of the Comedy of Errors with the names of the characters all changed and the scene laid in London.
LA 511
Manuscripts
Manuscript title page states, 'For the opening of the Theatre Royal Haymarket 1784'. There are some corrections, by author [?], and passages marked for omission, by Examiner [?]. See LA 663, of which this is apparently a copy, with some corrections made.
mssLA 659
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No application. Prod. D.L., Oct. 17, 1758 (originally, H2, Apr. 22, 1747). MS: consists of the Lady Pentweazle scene from Act I of Taste, set in a new frame, with Puff omitted; second act contains the burlesque rehearsal. (See Tate Wilkinson, Wandering Patentee [1795], I, 285; IV, 237.) See LA 93 and 194.
LA 149
Manuscripts
Performed for the benefit of Mr Knight. Manuscript includes some marks, possibly made by the Examiner as well as numerous corrections and deletions. Written in a lined notebook.
mssLA 1381
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Application Sept. 20, 1792 [1791], John Philip Kemble, H1 (D.L. Company). Prod. Sept. 22, 1791. MS: many corrections; endorsed On removing to the Kings Theatre.
LA 918
Manuscripts
Manuscript title page states, 'for the opening of the Theatre Royal Haymarket. 1784'. Includes corrections, some marks, by Examiner [?] and prologue and songs. John Payne Collier in Biographia Dramatica: Larpent's copy has the author's corrections and omissions -- It was objected to on account chiefly of personal allusions to the instrumentality of the Duchess of Devonshire in the Westminster. Elect: of 1784. See LA 659.
mssLA 663