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The Election of the Managers

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Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1784 June 2
Call number: mssLA 663
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