BIB_ID
287927
Accession number
MA 1352.426a-b
Published
[S.l. : S.n., 1855].
Credit line
Purchased, 1950.
Description
1 broadside
Notes
Library has two identical copies (a-b).
MA 1352.426a with a penciled note on the verso reading "Received with Dickens's letters on this production. His letters to Burdett-Coutts (MA 1352.426 et seq.)." MA 1352.426b with a penciled not on the verso "Received with MA 1352."
Text reads: The Smallest theatre in the world! Tavistock House. Lessee and manager Mr. Crummles [i.e. Charles Dickens]. On Saturday evening, June 10th, 1855, will be presented... and entirely new domestic melo-drama, in two acts, by Mr. Wilkie Collins, now first performed, called The lighthouse...
MA 1352.426a with a penciled note on the verso reading "Received with Dickens's letters on this production. His letters to Burdett-Coutts (MA 1352.426 et seq.)." MA 1352.426b with a penciled not on the verso "Received with MA 1352."
Text reads: The Smallest theatre in the world! Tavistock House. Lessee and manager Mr. Crummles [i.e. Charles Dickens]. On Saturday evening, June 10th, 1855, will be presented... and entirely new domestic melo-drama, in two acts, by Mr. Wilkie Collins, now first performed, called The lighthouse...
Provenance
Purchased by Oliver R. Barrett at the sale of the Burdett-Coutts library (London, 1922); Oliver R. Barrett sale (New York, Parke-Bernet, sale no. 1190, lot 312, 30 October-2 November 1950); purchased through the Carnegie Bookshop in November, 1950.
Summary
Announcing the first performance of "The Lighthouse" by Wilkie Collins, to be held at Dickens's home Tavistock House, and to be followed by a one-act farce by Dickens and Lemon titled "Mr. Nightingale's Diary."
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