Webster, Benjamin

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Epithet: actor, d 1947

British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000498.0x000109

Epithet: the younger writer of plays

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referencedIn LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S PLAYS. Vol. CXXXVI (ff. 901). Feb. 1847, except artt. 13-18 (Feb. 1848). (1) 'A School for Scheming', by 'D. Boucicault'. ff. 2-28. (2) 'The Yorkshire School or Life in Little', by G. D. Pitt. ff. 29-82. (3) 'Wildfire Dick and the... British Library
creatorOf Webster, Benjamin. Papers, 1867, Apr. 14-Oct. 20. Duke University, Medical Center Library & Archives
creatorOf Whitehead, Charles, Sir, 1834-1912. Autograph letter signed : Clarendon Square, to Benj. Webster, 1887 Sept. 28. Pierpont Morgan Library.
creatorOf 'The hen and chickens', comic drama in two acts by B. Webster. Licence sent 22 August 1863 for performance at the Adelphi. Listed in Nicoll as written in 1864.ff. 49.Benjamin Webster, the younger, writer of plays: Plays by, submitted: 1863-1867. British Library
creatorOf Humphrey, Henry Noel, 1810-1879. Letter, [1851-1875?], Herts, Eng., to Benjamin Webster. Brown University Archives, John Hay Library
referencedIn Milnes, Harriett. Duke Ellington oral history, 1939-1987 (inclusive). Yale University Library
referencedIn Golden Family Collection, 1795-1996 Working Men's Institute of New Harmony, Indiana
creatorOf Jerrold, Douglas William, 1803-1857. Autograph letters signed (3) : Putney and [n.p.], to Benjamin Webster, [ca. 1850] Oct. 5, [no year] Apr. 15 and [n.d.]. Pierpont Morgan Library.
referencedIn Shain, Charles E. Growing up in Maine : research papers collection, 1990-1993. Maine Historical Society Library
creatorOf Webster, Ben. Boots of the Holly Tree Inn [microform]. University of Missouri -- Columbia, MU Libraries; University of Missouri; MU; Ellis Library; University of Missouri Columbia
creatorOf 'The haunted man', play in one act by B. Webster jun. (?). Autograph. Licence sent 12 June 1863 for performance at the Adelphi. Based on Charles Dickens' novel The haunted man and the ghost’s bargain, (London, 1848). The Adelphi staged an earlie... British Library
creatorOf 'Aurora Floyd', prologue and drama in three acts by B. Webster, jun. Licence sent 13 March 1863 for performance at the Adelphi. For other versions, see Add. 53020 O, 53021 J, 53022 G, and 53022 H. The entry in the LCO Day Book Add. 52703 does not... British Library
creatorOf Vol. XX (ff. 279). Undated correspondence.includes:f. 1 Sinead Acheson, of London: Letter to G. B. Shaw of Sinead Acheson: n.d.: Imperf. f. 2 Eugen d' Albert, d 1932 German composer and pianist: Letter to G. B. Shaw of Eugen d' Albert: n.d. f. 3 Mary... British Library
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associatedWith Canton, Edwin, 1817-1885. person
associatedWith Golden Family family
associatedWith Humphrey, Henry Noel, 1810-1879. person
associatedWith Jerrold, Douglas William, 1803-1857. person
associatedWith Pettingell, Frank person
associatedWith Shain, Charles E. person
associatedWith University of Kent at Canterbury. Library. corporateBody
associatedWith Whitehead, Charles, Sir, 1834-1912. person
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