Manuscripts
Benjamin Webster signed quotation of a speech from the rivals
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Correspondence, manuscripts, and documents
Manuscripts
The box contains correspondence, manuscripts, and documents (mssHM 52621-62662). Some of the letters were removed from an album and are still window-mounted on larger paper.
mssHM 52621-52662
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Theatre record
Manuscripts
Theatre Record (1 volume), (1932-1938). Description: Removed newspaper clipping from inside front cover. Includes autograph index of contents, detailed descriptions and critiques of many plays and performers, with printed programs and photographs pasted into volume; plays, operas and concerts performed in theaters in London (England), New York (N.Y.), Los Angeles (Calif.). Also includes descriptions of touring around England and seeing the British Royal Family.
HM 62945
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Two license books of John Larpent
Manuscripts
Register of licenses issued by John Larpent from Jan. 1801 to Jan 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."
mssHM 19926
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John Gorham Palfrey letter to George Washington Greene
Manuscripts
An autograph letter written from Boston, Mass., from John G. Palfrey to George W. Greene, who was serving as U.S. Consul to Rome. The letter details a list of written works ordered by Palfrey but not yet paid for; he also mentions their mutual friend H.W. Longfellow. The letter has a red wax seal and was originally window-mounted; it has been removed but the old cloth hinges remain.
mssHM 83573