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Description: Manuscript includes a few cancelled passages. There are notes from Lord Salisbury to Larpent, May 4; Wroughton to Larpent, May 14 and Saturday Night-all concerned with refusal to license in first state, alterations, and change of title (see also note bound with LA 1192). Includes a prologue and epilogue.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1798 April 30
Call number: mssLA 1212
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