Records of Drury Lane Theatre [manuscript], 1766-1880.

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Records of Drury Lane Theatre [manuscript], 1766-1880.

Consists of journals, nightly accounts, paybooks, records of the wardrobe keepers, lists of plays with casts, inventories, etc.

170 v.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7995189

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