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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
Manuscripts
The note to the Examiner describes play as 'Alterations in the following comedy call'd Old City Manners' (taken from the Old Comedy of Eastward Hoe). Includes a number of corrections and a prologue for Eastward Hoe. There are slight differences between the manuscript and print versions.
mssLA 396
Manuscripts
Manuscript copy with some alterations throughout. Taken partly from the worked of a Miss Edgeworth, but with original songs and dialogue by the author.
mssLA 1994
Rare Books
ESTC R4367 ; Verse - Have you not lately heard" ; Includes "A dialogue between Mrs. Celier and the L. S---y", i.e. Elizabeth Cellier and Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury
135839
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Manuscripts
No application. MS: dated Hull, Jan. 2, 1804. J.P.C. in B.D.: Oglio-'A loyal comic and masonic Olio consisting of songs, recitation and dialogue' was given at the Hull Theatre in 1804 and on Jany 2d. it was sent to the Licenser for his authority-The Songs were by Mrs. Aickin, Mr Cummins, Knight Gattie & others.
LA 1400
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Manuscripts
An anonymous compilation of about sixty songs, without musical notation, including love songs, sea songs, drinking songs, parodies (on Chevy Chase, and on Hamlet's soliloquy beginning "To dance or not to dance," written in an Oxford ballroom), and others. A Table of Contents is given at the front of the volume. There are many blank pages.
mssHM 69649
