Date
Location
United States
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Performance materials
Promotional materials
Reference IDs
Folger call number: PROMPT W40
Folger holdings ID: 68259
Accession Number: cs28
Notes
General notes
Promptbook, interleaved with ruled pages. Playbills and newspaper clippings pasted in Title devised by cataloger
Item information about Folger PROMPT W40
Promptbook marked for stage manager by John Moore(?) and checked for the roles of Waiter (starting on page 28) and Bob Johnson (starting on page 31) in pencil. Publisher's original paper wrapper inside plain paper wrapper, interleaved with ruled pages. Pasted to outside front paper wrapper: portion of playbill with Moore as Ephraim Smooth and manuscript note added in ink: Bowery-New York; manuscript initials S [?] B at top. Pasted to 1st interleaf: portion of playbill with Moore as Ephraim Smooth. Pasted to verso of 1st interleaf: newspaper review of performance at Burton's and another review of performance at Wallack's Theatre. Pasted to 2nd interleaf: portion of playbill with Moore as Sim. Pasted to verso of 2nd interleaf: portion of playbill for Oct. 21, 1856 with Moore as Lamp. Pasted to 3rd interleaf: newspaper review of actor William Warren and a printed illustration of scene from play. Pasted to final leaf: portion of playbill for Oct. 17th with Moore as Landlord and manuscript note added in pencil: 1851. Includes loose: manuscript partbook, in ink, for Landlord and Waiter (6 unnumberd pages); manuscript partbook, in ink, for Sim (8 unnumbered pages, bound with string); manuscript partbook, in ink, for Ephraim Smooth, with costume list added to verso of final leaf (12 unnumbered pages, bound with string); manuscript partbook, in ink, for Farmer Gammon, with costume list added to page [12] (12 unnumbered pages, bound with string); manuscript partbook, in ink, for Twitch with added manuscript note, in pencil, on page [4]: "Gravesend Sep. 1839 Mrs. Lacy indisposed" (4 unnumbered pages); manuscript partbook, in ink, for Lamp with added manuscript note, in pencil, on page [4]: "Gravesend Sept 1839 change back to Twitch get on back board" (4 unnumbered pages); 1 leaf (folded) of music in manuscript ink
Also known as
Alternate titles: Wild oats
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Related names
annotator: Moore, John, 1814-1893