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San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of official copies of plays submitted for licensing between 1737 and 1824. Most of copies were written by professional copyists. Approximately 95 of the plays submitted were printed texts, either whole or partial. These have been cataloged individually and may be searched in the online catalog.
LA 2051
Manuscripts
The licence for this piece was refused although Larpent's list states that it was performed in 1761. Manuscript note on title-page and under notice to Examiner states, 'not thought fit to be acted'. Contains marginal notations and frequent underlining of text in pencil.
mssLA 189
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
Visual Materials
Image of a blank military register for the Spanish-American War with elaborate frame made up of three vignettes and six portraits of United States military leaders, Including Admiral George Dewey, Admiral Winfield Scott Schley, Lieutenant Richmond P. Hobson, General William Rufus Shafter, General Fitzhugh Lee and General Nelson A. Miles; goddess Columbia with a large American flag and bald eagle with Union shield surrounded by soldiers top center; U.S.S. Maine with two other ships in bottom right corner; soldiers in formation near a military camp with horse-drawn cannons in bottom left corner.
priJLC_MIL_001290
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Manuscripts
Application Nov. 30, 1822, Daniel Egerton, Olympic. Prod. (as The Two Gallows Slaves; or, Escaped from Brixton) Dec. 9. MS: title-page, dated by Larpent Nov. 30 and Dec. 2, states, Parody on the Two Galley Slaves; earlier title, The Two Gallow's Slaves or the Mill of Brixton, partially deleted.
LA 2322
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