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C. Plays submitted 1737 - January 1824 These plays are in the Huntington Library, San Marino, California. They are listed in D. MacMillan, Catalogue of the Larpent Plays in the Huntington Library, San Marino, 1939, available in the Manuscripts Reading Room. The plays may be consulted in the Reading Room on microfiche. Plays for 1727-1800 on MS Fiche 253 / 1 - 1297 and plays 1801-1823 on MS Fiche 254 / 1 - 1070. There are lists of the contents of these fiche in the Register of microfiche. In the Humanities Reading Room (floor 1), Three Centuries of English and American Plays, Readex, 1963, pressmark Cup.901.a.11/1-24, includes microcopy cards of English plays 1500-1800 and American plays 1714-1830. For a guide to the contents of the collection, see J. M. Griffin, Microform Research Collections in the Humanities, British Library, 1987, pp.24-26. D. The Lord Chamberlain’s Office Day Books These are the registers of plays received in the Lord Chamberlain's Office, Add. MSS 53702–53708, and 61952–61970. The mid to late 19th cent. and early 20th cent. volumes have a ‘comments’ column which sometimes has more detailed information about the play. Arranged as follows: 1824-1852: Add.MS. 53702 1929-1932: Add.MS. 61958 1852-1865: Add.MS. 53703 1933-1935: Add.MS. 61959 1866-1873: Add.MS. 53704 1935-1938: Add.MS. 61960 1873-1876: Add.MS. 53705 1938-1942: Add.MS. 61961 1877-1886: Add.MS. 53706 1942-1946: Add.MS. 61962 1887-1897: Add.MS. 53707 1946-1948: Add.MS. 61963 1897-1903: Add.MS. 53708 1949-1951: Add.MS. 61964 1904-1910: Add.MS. 61952 1951-1953: Add.MS. 61965 1911-1914: Add.MS. 61953 1953-1956: Add.MS. 61966 1915-1917: Add.MS. 61954 1956-1958: Add.MS. 61967 1918-1921: Add.MS. 61955 1959-1962: Add.MS. 61968 1922-1925: Add.MS. 61956 1962-1965: Add.MS. 61969 1926-1929: Add.MS. 61957 1966-1968: Add.MS. 61970 E. Lord Chamberlain's Plays Correspondence files 1900-1968 This collection consists of the papers relating to the licensing of stage plays by the Lord Chamberlain from 1900 to 1968 including Examiners' reports. 4
There are handwritten lists of all surviving correspondence files for (a) Licensed plays (in progress), (b) Unlicensed plays 1903-1968 and (c) Waiting Box plays 1913-1968. The latter two lists correspond to the Unlicensed LCP Lists 1 and 2 described above. For details of the card index to the correspondence files and method of application, see Section 2 part C of this leaflet. F. Lord Chamberlain’s Plays Theatre files, 1897 – early 1950s This collection has been transferred as a gift from the Royal Archives in two sections. The files mostly relate to the licensing of individual London theatres, but there is a substantial amount of material relating both to wider theatrical issues such as censorship, and to individual plays (mainly from the period 1912-1914). There is some material in these files which should have formed part of the Lord Chamberlain’s Plays Correspondence (see above) transferred to the British Library from the Lord Chamberlain’s Office in the early 1990s. The final catalogue description will have full details. As these collections are not yet catalogued or arranged, and some are in a poor state of repair, Readers wishing to consult a draft list (only available for the earlier section, dealing with the period up to the early 1930s), should contact the enquiries staff in the Manuscripts Reading Room, preferably by email on mss@bl.uk. G. Other Collections There are plays in many other collections in Manuscripts apart from the Lord Chamberlain’s Plays collections and other collections mentioned below. Apart from searching MOLCAT, readers should also consider the following: (a) volume 91 `Drama' of the Class Catalogue; (b) the Manuscript Collections Subject Index; (c) the Index of Manuscripts in the British Library, 10 vols, Cambridge 1984-1986 (d) the indexes to recent accessions; (e) The Index of English literary manuscripts 1450 - 1900, 4 vols in 10 parts, London and New York 1980 - 1984, and the Location register of twentieth-century English literary manuscripts and letters, 2 vols, London, 1988, are both available in the Manuscripts Reading Room. 5
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