Manuscripts
An Address to Be Spoken by Mr Lacy
1 of 2
- Description
- Unsigned, Spoken by Lacy on his first appearance at the Haymarket, as Hamlet [?].
- Date
- 1784 September 13
- Call number
- mssLA 669add
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Application Sept. 13, 1784, unsigned, H2 (?). Spoken Sept. 13. MS. (Spoken by Lacy on his first appearance at H2, as Hamlet?)
LA 669
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Notice states: to be spoken on the Appearance of Miss Wallace [Wallis], as Sigismunda.
mssLA 810pro
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No application. Spoken by Mrs. Powell, D.L., May 2, 1795. MS.
LA 1078
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Register of licenses issued by John Larpent from January 1801 to January 15, 1824. The entries include the names and brief descriptions of the plays for which licenses were granted, with the name of the theatre where it was to be performed, together with the entry for the license fee. In addition to the London theatres -- the Haymarket, Covent Garden, Drury Lane, the Adelphi and the Olympic -- there are entries for provincial theaters such as Norwich, Birmingham, Margate, Liverpool, Manchester, York, Hull, and Glasgow, sometimes with the name of the manager. A few plays are crossed out as "refused." There is an entry for "An address to be spoken on Master Betty's 1st appearance in London, Theatre Royal Covent Garden Dec. 1st 1804. Also included is a letter from John Larpent to the Lord Chamberlain, January 2, 1822 (f. 40v), and original bindings.
mssHM 19926
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The Manuscript series contains 20 journals written by George E. Farrand from 1915 to 1954 as well as two printed publications. The journals include daily entries regarding his law practice, the weather, his weight, as well as details regarding family matters and world events, such as the Great Depression, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, World War II and the start of the Cold War. At the end of most of the journals, he includes a brief summary of his year, including personal, business and world events. The later journals also include numerous news clippings. The Correspondence series is arranged alphabetically by author and predominantly contains letters related to business transactions such as the merger of First National and Security Pacific Banks in Los Angeles and the Julian Petroleum scandal as well as personal correspondence amongst friends, acquaintances, and political allies, including Henry M. Robinson, George E. Farrand, Harry Chandler, George E. Hale, Lou Henry Hoover, Herbert Hoover (many through Hoover's assistants, including Lawrence Richey and Paul Sexson), and Alonzo Englebert Taylor. The Ephemera series is arranged alphabetically by subject and then chronologically within each folder. It contains separate folders for biographical and genealogical materials, cards, empty envelopes, event programs, indices and disposition of the files of Henry M. Robinson, judicial opinions, law school examination, legal documents and research memoranda, miscellaneous office documents, newspaper clippings, notes and minutes from meetings, pamphlets and printed statements, photographs, receipts, securities issues and offering materials, Senate hearings transcripts, speeches and statements of assets and "C" memoranda. The detailed indices of Henry M. Robinson's files indicate the status of his files upon his death and the disposition of those materials by his brother and George E. Farrand.
mssRobinson Farrand papers
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Publisher: Los Angeles City College (Los Angeles, Calif.) Note: Publication information on p. 8 describes this as v. XXI no. 45 (issue 777). Laid in typescript note reads: "This is Bukowski's student college newspaper. Bukowski is not in this issue, but he did have a letter to the editor printed in the 24 May 1940 issue. That was his first appearance in print."
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