The Lighthouse [playbill]

Record ID: 
287927
Accession number: 
MA 1352.426a-b
Published: 
[S.l. : S.n., 1855].
Credit: 
Purchased, 1950.
Description: 
1 broadside
Notes: 

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...
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."

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."

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.
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