BIB_ID
193129
Accession number
MA 4804
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
England, 1847 July?.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1993.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 37.2 x 22.5 cm
Notes
There is no indication on the playbill when or where it was created, though presumably Dickens composed it near the date of the performance.
Provenance
Purchased at Sotheby's (New York), 10 Dec 1993, lot 287.
Summary
The printer's copy, entirely in Dickens's hand, for the amateur performance at the Theatre Royal Liverpool on 28 July 1847 for the benefit of Leigh Hunt, in which Dickens, George Cruikshank, John Forster, Douglas Jerrold, G. H. Lewes, John Leech, Augustus Egg and others took part. The plays performed included "Every Man in his Humour," "Turning the Tables," and "Comfortable Lodgings: or Paris in 1750." A preliminary address, written for the occasion by Bulwer Lytton, was delivered by Forster.
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