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I've got a little list : encore verse : autograph manuscript draft with corrections.

Record ID
417880
Accession number
GSC 111344.1
Creator
Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), 1836-1911, author.
Biographical Data
English dramatist, author, librettist, stage director, and illustrator.
Object title

I've got a little list : encore verse : autograph manuscript draft with corrections.

Uniform title
Mikado. Act 1. I've got a little list. Selections
Credit line
Gift of Reginald Allen.
Provenance
Reginald Allen.
Notes
Verse consists of 10 lines; at head of text: Encore verse.
No place of writing is given; manuscript unsigned and undated.
Autograph manuscript draft of an encore verse for Ko-Ko's song "I've got a little list", from Act I of the Mikado; evidently written by W.S. Gilbert for the 1908 revival at the Savoy Theatre, and including topical references to "the lovely suffragist" and "the red-hot socialist" absent from the original version of the song; with the second half of the second line rewritten.
Library has another manuscript of W.S. Gilbert's "encore" verse for this song, evidently a later draft, incorporating the changes indicated in this version (see GSC 111344.2); the two manuscripts housed together.
Associated names
Allen, Reginald, former owner.