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Manuscript of a play in autograph. (p. i) prefatory note; (p. iia) extract from Glasgow Evening Times; (p. ii) copy of editorial from Daily News, 22 Sep. 1893; (p. 8) further prefatory matter; (p. 11) text. The play is apparently unprinted.

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(fo.iv) prefatory notes; (fo. 17v) text. Incomplete at end. The play is apparently unprinted.

Scope and Contents MS Add. 10138 contains scripts (draft and later versions) of plays and other writings by Rose, as well as family correspondence covering Rose’s life from childhood until his death. Other writings by Rose include ‘The Rose Reader’ (a book outlining a method to teach children to read), a novel and poetry. Collected souvenir programmes and promotional material relating to 19th century theatre are also included. The correspondence (MS Add.10138/3) has been calendared to provide short summaries...

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Includes drafts of plays, journals of travels in the United Kingdom, diaries, notes on Great Gransden, correspondence and notes.

Scope and Contents 1. Papers on Shakespeare The largest part of the collection is comprised of versions of chapters prepared for Smith's Shakespearian and other essays, supplemented by a few essays on related topics. Shakespearian and other essays The printers' copy of chapters from Smith's book, 1973, including preliminaries and Edward Wilson's memoir of the author (1 envelope). All's well that end's well The collated version of the chapter on the play prepared for Shakespearian and other essays, c. 1972 (1...

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A prose translation into English of Plautus's play Pseudolus by J.S. Reid, 265 folios: (fo. 3) title-page; (fo. 4) translation; (fo. 82) notes. The text is written on the recto only, with notes written on the recto of alternate leaves.

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Includes an appendix and a typescript of chapters from the same work.

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A burlesque in one act. Stage directions in a second hand.

Scope and Contents Theatre programmes, playbills, postcards of cast members, photographs, newspaper cuttings, magazines, letters, and personal record books, with accompanying explanatory notes, collected by Charles Woods, and including programmes and posters from his own shows as Horace Watson. The programmes are grouped into sets: New Theatre and Theatre Cinema (over 1,000 items), Festival Theatre (c. 100), Arts Theatre (over 2,000), London Theatres (c. 300), and Horace Watson items (c. 50). There is also a...

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52 folios. The book begins with poems, including 'Quaestio Henrici Hubbard 1733' (fo. 26) and 'Upon Bob Leak' (fos 27-28). On fos 32-48 is 'The Manners of ye Age in 13 Moral Satirs. Lond: 1733', presumably a copy of the printed work of this title. On fos 49-52, entered from the other end of the book, are extracts from Vanbrugh's plays headed 'The Cream of Poetry'.