Engagement between the King's Theatre, London, and dancer Auguste Vestris : manuscript, 3 July and 27 August 1780.

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Engagement between the King's Theatre, London, and dancer Auguste Vestris : manuscript, 3 July and 27 August 1780.

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The contract was written in Italian on 3 July 1780 and signed by R.B. Sheridan, manager of the King's Theatre, and Peter Crawford, treasurer of the Theatre, who may have also written the contract. An agreement to the contract was written in French at the bottom of p. [2] on 27 August 1780 and signed by Auguste Vestris and witnessed by Hibenard (?) and George Hobart, former manager of the King's Theatre.

[2] p. ; 33 cm.

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Harvard University, Harvard Theater Collection, Harvard College Library

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