Series I: Letters

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1697

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1930

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{"value"=>"<p>This series contains letters and other manuscripts documenting the theater from the late 17th century to the mid 20th century. Included as well are transcriptions of all the letters and most of the other documents. Correspondents include Mrs. Abington, Ira Aldridge, John Astley, Dion Boucicault, David Garrick, members of the Kemble and Kean families, Charles Macklin, William Charles Macready, Lord North, Jane Pope, Henry and Sarah Siddons, Bernard Shaw, Dame Ellen Terry and Madame Vestris. Included as well are other types of manuscripts such as an epilogue, contracts, some biographical notes, regulations for the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, a commentary by William Farren, a ballad called <span class=\"title\">Jack Harding</span> as well as a copy of a Folger manuscript on the same topic, some ephemera belonging to Edmund Kean, notes and scenic directions by John Philip Kemble, notes by Charles Macklin on the trial for the \"<span class=\"title\">Macbeth</span>\" riots, a theater notice by Charles Reed and a Drury Lane tailor voucher.</p>"}

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1697

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1930

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1697

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1. Correspondence / Mrs. (Frances Barton) Abington
2. Correspondence / Mrs. (Frances Barton) Abington.
3. Correspondence / Ira Frederick Aldridge
4. Correspondence / Ira Frederick Aldridge.
5. Correspondence / John Philip Conway Astley
6. Correspondence / John Philip Conway Astley
7. Correspondence / John Bannister
8. Correspondence / Ann Barry
9. Correspondence / Elizabeth Barry
10. Correspondence / William Barrymore.
11. Correspondence / George Ann Bellamy.
12. Prologue to the University of Oxford / Thomas Betterton
13. Epilogue spoken by Mrs. Barry / Thomas Betterton
14. Correspondence / William Booth
15. Correspondence / Dion Boucicault
16. Correspondence / Dion Boucicault
17. Correspondence / Gustavus Vaughan Brooke
18. Correspondence / John Baldwin Buckstone
19. Correspondence / Alfred Bunn
20. Correspondence / George Saville Carey
21. Correspondence / Susanna Centlivre
22. Correspondence / Susannah Maria Arne Cibber
23. Epilogue for Mrs. Clive and Mr. Beard in the character of ballad singers / Mrs. (Catherine) Clive.
24. Correspondence / George Colman
25. Correspondence / George Frederick Cooke.
26. Correspondence / T. P. (Thomas Potter) Cooke
27. Agreeement with T. Cadell / Mrs. (Hannah) Cowley
28. Correspondence / Edward Gordon Craig
29. Correspondence / Anna Maria Crouch
30. Crouch and Phillips family biographical notes.
31. Correspondence / Richard Cumberland
32. Correspondence / Thomas Davies
33. Correspondence / William Spencer Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire
34. Correspondence / William Dimond
35. Correspondence / Thomas Dogget.
36. Correspondence / William Dowton
37. Correspondence / Andrew Ducrow.
38. Correspondence / R. W. (Robert William) Elliston
39. Correspondence / R. W. (Robert William) Elliston
40. Regulations for Theatre Royal, Drury Lane / R. W. (Robert William) Elliston
41. Correspondence / E. Farrell
42. Correspondence / Elizabeth Farren
43. A plea for English entertainment at his forthcoming benefit / William Farren.
44. Correspondence / Mr. (John) Fawcett
45. Correspondence / Charles Fechter
46. Correspondence / Edward Fitzball
47. Correspondence / Maria Foote.
48. Correspondence / Maria Foote
49. Correspondence / Samuel Foote
50. Correspondence / David Garrick.
51. Correspondence / David Garrick
52. Ballad called Jack Harding, or, The grand female specific / David Garrick.
53. Correspondence / Thomas Greenwood
54. Correspondence / Joseph Grimaldi
55. Correspondence / William James Hammond
56. Correspondence / Leigh Hunt.
57. Correspondence / Sir Henry Irving
58. Correspondence / Sir Henry Irving
59. Correspondence / Henry Arthur Jones
60. Correspondence / Dorothy Jordan
61. Correspondence / Charles John Kean
62. Correspondence / Edmund Kean
63. Correspondence / Edmund Kean
64. Ephemera / Edmund Kean.
65. Correspondence / Ellen Kean
66. Correspondence / Ellen Kean
67. Correspondence / Robert Keeley
68. Correspondence / Frances Maria Kelly
69. Correspondence / Charles Kemble
70. Correspondence / Fanny Kemble.
71. Correspondence / John Philip Kemble
72. Notes / John Philip Kemble.
73. Correspondence / A. Kimber.
74. Correspondence / Thomas King.
75. Correspondence / John Larpent
76. Correspondence / Henri Louis Cain Lekain
77. Correspondence / John Liston
78. Correspondence / Phillipe-Jacques de Loutherbourg
79. Correspondence / W. Loveday
80. Correspondence / Charles Macklin
81. Correspondence / Charles Macklin
82. Correspondence / Charles Macklin
83. Notes / Charles Macklin
84. Correspondence / William Charles Macready
85. Correspondence / Helena Faucit Martin
86. Correspondence / Charles Mathews
87. Correspondence / Charles James Mathews
88. Correspondence / Charles James Mathews
89. Correspondence / Charles James Mathews
90. Correspondence / W. T. (William Thomas) Moncrieff
91. Correspondence / John Moody
92. Correspondence / Joseph Moore
93. Correspondence / Arthur Murphy
94. Correspondence / Frederick, Lord North
95. Correspondence / John O'Keeffe
96. Correspondence / Samuel Phelps.
97. Correspondence / Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
98. Correspondence / George Dibdin Pitt
99. Correspondence / J. R. (James Robinson) Planché
100. Correspondence / Jane Pope.
101. Correspondence / Tyrone Power.
102. Correspondence / Elisa Rachel
103. Correspondence / Priscilla Reed
104. Correspondence / Frederick Reynolds.
105. Notice / Charles Reed.
106. Correspondence / T. W. (Thomas William) Robertson
107. Contract / Thos Rouse
108. Correspondence / James Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury
109. Correspondence / E. (Eugène) Scribe
110. Correspondence / Thomas James Serle
111. Correspondence / Bernard Shaw
112. Correspondence / Henry Siddons
113. Correspondence / Sarah Siddons
114. Correspondence / Sarah Siddons
115. Correspondence / Sarah Siddons
116. Correspondence / William Smith
117. Correspondence / Owen Mac Swinny.
118. Correspondence / François Joseph Talma.
119. Correspondence / Dame Ellen Terry
120. Correspondence / Henry Vandenhoff
121. Correspondence / Henry Vandenhoff.
122. Correspondence / Lucia Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris
123. Correspondence / Henry John Wallack
124. Correspondence / James William Wallack.
125. Correspondence / Benjamin Nottingham Webster
126. Correspondence / Thomas Weston, gent.
127. Correspondence / Samuel Whitbread
128. Correspondence / Tate Wilkinson
129. Drury Lane voucher for the tailor / Robert Wilks
130. Correspondence / Charles Mayne Young