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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

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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

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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

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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 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

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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

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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 , 26th Dec. 1862. (Cast list). Published by Thomas Hailes Lacy. 89 Strand. , .

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. Sept. 1865. Including translations from the Chinese of Chang Woo Gow's address to the Audience and Autobiography. St. James, Westminster.

ACC/0595/034 Printed version of "Aladdin; or The Wonderful 1865 Scamp!" by Henry J. Byron. N/D. [probably printed 1865]. As performed at The NEW THEATRE, GREENWICH, on Saturday Sept. 2nd 1865. (Cast list). Published by Thos. Hailes Lacy, 89 Strand. [See also ACC/0595/35.] Greenwich, Kent. LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES Page 7 COOK COLLECTION OF NINETEENTH CENTURY THEATRICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS

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ACC/0595/035 Programme, Polygraphic Hall, King William 1865 Street, Strand. Tuesday Dec. 19th 1865. Amateur performance of "Turn Him Out", "All That Glitters is not Gold", "Aladdin, or the Wonderful Scamp" by Henry J. Byron. [See ACC/0595/34]. St. Martin in the Fields.

ACC/0595/036 Playbill, PRINCE OF WALES Theatre, 1865 Tottenham Court Road; "re-named by special permission. [Formerly "Queen's Theatre]. N/D. [1865 - T.W. Robertson produced 'Society' in that year. D.N.B.] "Society" by T. W. Robertson: "Lucia di Lammermoor" by Henry J. Byron, based on Donizelti's opera. Cast lists. Under management of Miss Marie Wilton; Lessee: C. J. James. St. Pancras.

ACC/0595/037 Programme, [c. 1865 - 1871 N/D. [between 1865, when Mrs. Swanborough ] became licensee and 1870, when Wm. Brough died]. "Sisterly Service" by J. P. Wooler. "The Field of the Cloth of Gold" - "new historical Extravaganza" by William Brough. "Marriage at any Price", a screaming farce. Details of casts, etc. [Programme perfumed by Rimmel]. Strand.

ACC/0595/038 Leaflet, HER MAJESTY'S Theatre. [c. 1867] N/D. [circa 1867]. Advertising Farewell performances of the Italian Opera coy. Wednesday Oct. 29th - Saturday Nov. 8th. (Conductor Luigi Arditi).

ACC/0595/039 Playbill, QUEEN'S Theatre, Long Acre. 1868 Sept. 14th 1868. "The Lancashire Lass" by Henry J. Byron. "Tomkins, the Troubadour", new farce, as a curtain raiser. Cast lists, including "Mr. H. Irving and Mr. C. Wyndham. Long Acre. LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES Page 8 COOK COLLECTION OF NINETEENTH CENTURY THEATRICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS

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ACC/0595/040 Playbill, Westbourne Hall, Westbourne Grove, 1868 Bayswater. Wednesday July 1st 1868. "Benefit and last appearance of Miss Lydia Howard, the Baby Actress, when she will sustain her characters of Katherine! in "The Taming of the Shrew", Falstaff! in "King Henry the Fourth", Prince Arthur! in "King John" and Matilda Mowbray! Hector Mowbray!! Foppington Mowbray!!! Cobbleton Mowbray!!!! in The Four Mowbrays". Also appearing: Miss Hazelwood and Mr J S Fitzpatrick Paddington

ACC/0595/041 Printed Song Sheet (n.d. Mid 19 c N/D. mid 19th Century. Words of the Songs, pre 1866) Glees, Duets, Madrigals, Choruses, English and Foreign Operatic Selections sung nightly at WESTON'S GRAND MUSIC HALL, 242, High . Names of vocalists and musicians. St. Giles in the Fields. LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES Page 9 COOK COLLECTION OF NINETEENTH CENTURY THEATRICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS

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ACC/0595/042 Copy of "The Entr'acte", a daily programme of 1859 theatrical and other public entertainments. No. 100. Thursday Sept. 8th 1859. Theatres mentioned:- HER MAJESTY'S (Closed); COVENT GARDEN (closed); HAYMARKET (Hallowe'en, The Contested Election, Out of Sight Out of Mind, A Daughter to Marry - all casts given); PRINCESS'S Oxford Street (Closed): DRURY LANE (closed), STRAND (The Goose with the Golden Eggs, School for Coquettes, The Lady of Lyons - all casts given); LYCEUM (closed); OLYMPIC (closed); SADLERS WELLS (Romeo and Juliet, The Milliner's Holiday - casts given); ST. JAMES' (closed); STANDARD, Shoreditch (Christy's Minstrels); NEW ADELPHI (closed); MARYLEBONE, New Church St. (Rob Roy, The Divorce - casts); Soho Dean Street (Rule Britannia, Happiest Day of My Life, Gilbert the Idiot, - casts); , Norton Folgate (Il Travatore, The Bonnet Builders' Tea Party, Mary Price - casts); QUEEN'S, Tottenham Street (The Stolen Will, Little Back Parlour, Alice Auckland - casts); BRITANNIA, Hoxton (Incendiaries, Verdant Giles, The Watch Tower - casts); ASTLEY'S (closed); VICTORIA, Waterloo Rd. [Old Vic] - (The Compact, The Carpenter of Lambeth - cast); SURREY, Blackfriars Rd (closed); PAVILION, White -Chapel Rd (Bertha Gray - cast, including a Miss E. Terry, Christy's Minstrels); GRECIAN, City Rd. (Whitefriars, The Buccaneer's Wife - casts); GARRICK, Whitechapel (closed), EFFINGHAM, Whitechapel Rad. (The Spectre Bridegroom, Mat Graves, Ingratitude - casts); CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster Rd (Verdi's Macbeth); HIGHBURY BARN (Dancing); CREMORNE GARDENS (Dancing, Fireworks, Marionettes, etc.). Also list of current Exhibitions, including CRYSTAL PALACE, ROYAL COLOSSEUM, MADAME TUSSAUDS, ROYAL SURREY GARDENS LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES Page 10 COOK COLLECTION OF NINETEENTH CENTURY THEATRICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS

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ACC/0595/043 Copy of "The Glowworm", Programme and 1865 Evening Newspaper (condensed edition for the convenience of playgoers). No. 75. London, Thursday evening, Oct. 5th 1865. Advertises "It is Never Too Late to Mend" at the ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, Oxford Street - (cast). News includes, Naval and Military; The Turf (selections for the Cambridgeshire), America (Pardons to Rebels, Wirz Trial, Mexico); Police and Coroners Reports; City prices; and gossip (Building improvements in Marylebone).

ACC/0595/044 Printed Report, WEST MIDDLESEX RIFLES. 1863 1863. (See ACC/0595/15).

ACC/0595/045 "A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to 1847 Returned to owner 11.11.57 Almighty God, to be used for all Churches and Chapels in England and Wales, and in the Town of Berwick-on-Tweed, on Sunday the Seventeenth Day of October 1847, being the Day appointed for a General Thanksgiving to Almighty God: For The Late Abundant Harvest". By Her Majesty's Special Command. Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 1847.

ACC/0595/046 Printed booklet, The Form of Prayer and n.d. 19 C Returned to owner 11.11.57. Ceremonies used at the Consecration of Churches and Burial-Grounds. N/D. 19th C.

ACC/0595/047 Manuscript verses re telling fortunes by playing n.d. (19 C) cards. N/D. [19th Century]. Paper. Miscellaneous items