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LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES Page 1 COOK COLLECTION OF NINETEENTH CENTURY THEATRICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS ACC/0595 Reference Description Dates Theatrical programmes, playbills and copies of songs ACC/0595/001 The CRYSTAL PALACE Penny Guide. c. 1855-65 N/D. Circa 1855-65. Plans of Grounds and Galleries. See also ACC/0595/2-4; 29. Sydenham Kent. ACC/0595/002 Programme, CRYSTAL PALACE 1859 Wednesday, Sept. 28th 1859. Mr. F. Strange's First Fete. Concerts by the Coldstream Guards Band and the Cremona Band, Organ Recital; Boat Racing and Aquatic Sports, Balloon Ascent; Display of Fountains; Banquet. [organist, James Coward] Sydenham Kent. ACC/0595/003 Leaflet advertising entertainment at CRYSTAL 1868 PALACE. Saturday June 13th 1868. Great Combined Fete; Grand Opera Concert; Performance of Handel's Firework Music; Brilliant Illumination of Fountains and Park; Grand Display of Fireworks. Sydenham, Kent. ACC/0595/004 Programme, CRYSTAL PALACE. 1869 Tuesday June 29th 1869. Grand Musical Festival, Firework Display, and Illumination of Fountains in honour of His Highness the Viceroy of Egypt. Organist, Mr. James Coward. Conductor, Sir Michael Costa. Sydenham, Kent. ACC/0595/005 Programme, Royal English Opera. [1859] N/D [Oct. 1859 - see ACC/0595/6. Under the management of Louisa Pyne and William Harrison: English version by Henry Chorley of Meyerbeer's "Dinorah". Orchestra conducted by Alfred Mellon. Followed by a Divertissement. St. Paul Covent Garden, Westminster. ACC/0595/006 Printed libretto of "Dinorah", the Pilgrimage to 1859 Ploermel. (Meyerbeer). Translation by Henry Chorley. First produced at the Royal ENGLISH OPERA, COVERT GARDEN, Monday October 3rd 1859. [See ACC/0595/5]. Published and sold in the theatre. St. Paul Covent Garden, Westminster. LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES Page 2 COOK COLLECTION OF NINETEENTH CENTURY THEATRICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS ACC/0595 Reference Description Dates ACC/0595/007 Playbill, Royal English Opera House, Covent [1862] Garden. N/D. [Dec. 1862 : see ACC/0595/8.] Under the management of Louisa Pyne and William Harrison. A grand Christmas pantomime "Beauty and the Beast", (cast includes Wm. Henry S. Payne), preceded by two acts of "The Bohemian Girl". St. Paul Covent Garden, Westminster. ACC/0595/008 Printed version of "Beauty and the Beast" by 1862 Henry J, Byron As first performed at the Royal English Opera, Covent Garden, under the management of Louisa Pyne and William Harrison, Friday Dec. 26, 1862. [See ACC/0595/7.] Published and sold in the theatre. St. Paul Covent Garden, Westminster. ACC/0595/009 Programme, Royal English Opera House, [1864/5] Covent Garden. N/D [Christmas season, 1864/5] Leases Opera Company Ltd. St. Paul Covent Garden, Westminster. ACC/0595/010 Printed libretto of Lucia di Lammermoor [c. 1862-65 (Donizetti) Edited and translated by Manfredo Maggione, as presented at the ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. (Printed in English and Italian). N/D. [circa 1862-65]. St. Paul Covent Garden Westminster. ACC/0595/011 Programme, Royal Italian Opera House, 1865 Covent Garden. Saturday, Sept, 30th 1865. Last night of the current season of Mr. Alfred Mellon's Concerts. Benefit of Mr. Alfred Mellon. Artistes include Mlle Carlotta Patti (Sister of Adelina Patti). St. Paul Covent Garden Westminster. ACC/0595/012 Printed version of the Songs, Duets, etc., in the 1859 New Dramatic Tableau (in Watteau colours) entitled "Love and Fortune" by J. R. [James Robinson] Planchœ. First performed at the ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE Saturday Sept. 24. 1859. (Cast list). Published by Thos. Hailes Lacy. 89 Strand. St. Marylebone LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES Page 3 COOK COLLECTION OF NINETEENTH CENTURY THEATRICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS ACC/0595 Reference Description Dates ACC/0595/013 Playbill, PRINCESS'S Theatre 1859 Oxford Street. Monday Sept. 26th 1859. A new drama in four acts: "IVY HALL" by John Oxenford (among the cast, Mr. H. Irving). Also a dramatic tableau in Watteau Colours, "Love and Fortune" by J. R. Planch . St. Marylebone ACC/0595/014 ST. JAMES'S HALL. Regent Street and 1862 Piccadilly. Fifth season of Monday popular concerts, directed by Mr. S. Arthur Chappell. Programme and Analytical Remarks for Monday evening Nov. 17. 1862. Conductor, Mr. Benedict. [Sir Julius Benedict?] Vocalist, Sims Reeves. Piano, Charles Hall . St. James, Westminster. ACC/0595/015 West Middlesex Rifles 1862 Programme of 3rd Annual Distribution of Prizes and Soir e at ST. JAMES'S HALL, Thursday Dec. 4. 1862. See ACC/0595/44. St. James, Westminster. ACC/0595/016 Programme, ST. JAMES'S HALL, 1863 PICCADILLY. Thursday Jan 8. 1863. Mrs. John MacFarren, repeats her entertainment "A Morning at the Pianoforte" written by George Alexander Macfarren St. James, Westminster. ACC/0595/017 Playbill, Theatre Royal, HAYMARKET. 1859 Thursday Sept. 8th - Saturday Sept. 10th 1859. New Ballet, by the Leclercqs, entitled "Halloween": Mr. and Mrs. Charles Matthews in "The Contested Election": "Out of Sight, Out of Mind"; "A Daughter to Marry"; Details of casts. Monday Sept. 12 - Friday Sept. 16th 1859 "The Contested Election"; "The Happiest Day of my Life"; "Out of Sight, Out of Mind"; "Halloween". Saturday Sept. 17th 1859. Mr. Charles Matthew's Benefit. "The Road to Ruin". St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster. LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES Page 4 COOK COLLECTION OF NINETEENTH CENTURY THEATRICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS ACC/0595 Reference Description Dates ACC/0595/018 Programme, Theatre Royal, HAYMARKET. 1862 Week commencing 24 November 1862. Every evening - Lord Dundreary by Mr. Sothern. "A Daughter to Marry", comic drama. "Our American Cousin", new comedy. "Duck Hunting", farce. "Jack's Return from Canton", ballet sketch. Details of casts. St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster. ACC/0595/019 Playbill, Theatre Royal, HAYMARKET. 1865 Monday October 23rd 1865, and during the week. "Three weeks After Marriage"; Mr. Charles Matthews in "Used Up" (adapted from "L'homme Blas "): Mrs. Charles Matthews as Medea in Planche's "The Golden Fleece". "Fans and Fandangoes", a new Spanish ballet. Details of casts. St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster. ACC/0595/020 Programme, Theatre Royal, NEW ADELPHI. 1859 Thursday Sept. 29th 1859, and during the week. "The Willow Copse" by Dion Boucicault and C. Kenney. (Cast includes Charles Selby, John Lawrence Toole, Sarah Jane Mellon). "One Touch of Nature" by Benjamin Webster; "Love and Hunger" by John M. Morton [Author of "Box and Cox"] St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster. ACC/0595/021 Programme, Theatre Royal, ADELPHI. 1868 Monday Aug. 3. 1868, and during the week. "A Rough Diamond" - farce. "Flying Scud" by Dion Boucicault. "The Fast Coach" by Robert Soutar. St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster. ACC/0595/022 Catalogue, MADAME TUSSAUD AND SONS 1857 EXHIBITION Baker Street, Portman Square. April Quarter 1857. St. Marylebone ACC/0595/023 Programme, Mr. and Mrs. German Reed's (late 1857 Miss P. Horton's) entirely new series of Popular Illustrations, in two parts. Part I. Our Home Circuit, Part II. Sea-Side Studies. Printed (1857) booklet of songs and dialogue. [Mr. and Mrs. German Reed's Entertainments began at St. Martin's Hall, 1855, and were removed to 14 Regent Street, 1856, and to St. George's Hall, 1874]. LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES Page 5 COOK COLLECTION OF NINETEENTH CENTURY THEATRICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS ACC/0595 Reference Description Dates ACC/0595/024 KEW GARDENS, PLEASURE-GROUNDS and c. 1858 PARK. A Hand-Book Guide for Visitors. N/D (circa 1858). [Advertisement for Madame Tussauds Exhibition mentions General Havelock and Sir Colin Campbell of the Releif of Lucknow 1857; and wedding of H.R.H. Princess Royal, 1858]. Kew Gardens, Surrey. ACC/0595/025 Programme (2 copies), Royal POLYTECHNIC 1859 INSTITUTION 309 Regent Street, and 5 Cavendish Square. Programme of the Lectures, Demonstrations and Exhibitions for the week commencing Monday August 29th 1859. Lectures on Chemistry etc; Exhibitions of Dissolving Views; Musical Entertainment by Mr. George Buckland. St. Marylebone. ACC/0595/026 Programme, Royal COLOSSEUM of Science, [1861] Music and Art, Regents Park and Albany Street. N/D. [1861-Christmas]. Programme of entertainments and exhibitions etc., including panoramas; dioramas; pantomime; the Barrett Minstrels "in their refined Negro entertainment" [some of the music composed by George Linley]; and "Grand Juvenile Fete", with Christmas tree. St. Pancras. ACC/0595/027 Programme, Royal COLOSSEUM of Science, [1861 or 1862] Music and Art, Regents Park and Albany Street. N/D [late Dec. 1861 or early 1862]. Colossal Dioramas of London, Lisbon and Paris. Lectures by Mr. William Stokes on Natural and Artificial Memory. St. Pancras. ACC/0595/028 Programme, THE HANOVER SQUARE 1862 ROOMS. ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourth Concert of the Michaelmas Term 1862, given by the students, on Saturday Dec. 13th 1862. St. George, Hanover Square, Westminster. LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES Page 6 COOK COLLECTION OF NINETEENTH CENTURY THEATRICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS ACC/0595 Reference Description Dates ACC/0595/029 Official Catalogue of the INTERNATIONAL 1862 EXHIBITION (Fine Art Department). Held at Exhibition Building, South Kensington. Includes Ground Plan. (Also descriptive advertisement for Crystal Palace). South Kensington. ACC/0595/030 Playbill, LYCEUM Theatre. [1862] N/D [1862 - "Peep O' Day" played in London from Nov. 1861 - Dec. 1862]. Monday Dec. 1st: "It Must be True", "Twas in the Papers", after which the Drama "Peep O' Day" ("the longest uninterrupted run of any drama ever produced in London)." Details of casts. ACC/0595/031 Printed version of "Robin Hood; or The 1862 Forester's Fate!" an Extravaganza by F. C. Burnand. N/D [probably printed 1863]. First performed at the Royal OLYMPIC THEATRE, 26th Dec. 1862. (Cast list). Published by Thomas Hailes Lacy. 89 Strand. Wych Street, Drury Lane. ACC/0595/032 Printed version of "Little Goody Two-Shoes" or 1862-3 "Harlequin and Cock Robin", by E. L. Blanchard. (Drury Lane pantomime 1862-3). Drury Lane. ACC/0595/033 Programme, EGYPTIAN HALL, Piccadilly 1865 Of Levees held by Chang Woo Gow, the Tall Man of Fychow, or the Great Chinese Giant, including his celebrated Ode on the Crystal Palace.