The play apparently dates from 1841 or before (it was performed in Hamburg in 1841). The file contains materials related to rehearsal and performance, including a published copy (Berlin: Eduard Bloch, n.d.; 8th edition, ca. mid 1860s), which has been annotated as a prompt-book; and 5 handwritten role books, for the following parts (the complete cast): Frank, Bankier; Charlotte und Lorenz (Geschwister in seinem Dienste); Fuchs, Kaufmann; und Isabella, seine Tochter. The published copy attributes music to E. Stiegmann, but no music is included here. The role books are marked by hand as the property of Theodor Bloch, who ran a theater lending library in Philadelphia. Several of them bear the names of actors assigned the roles, at least two of which are recognizable from the casts of other German-language plays performed in Philadelphia in the early 1880s. (The collection's holdings of theater newspapers and playbills contain no reference to this play.)
