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Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

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Date: 1684-2000
Places:
  • London
Functions, occupations and activities: Domestic and leisure services > Theatres
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/C96357 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B9270 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1919-1921: house receipt book No 1
London University: Senate House Library
MS1260
See Annual Return 2019
2
1684-19th cent: list of shareholders, papers rel to patent, receipts, recitation addresses, Sheridan's corresp incl accounts and memoranda
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Eg MS 1975; Add MSS 7117, 20726, 27899-900, 29709-11, 32428
3
c1714-c1880: journals, accounts, pay books, inventories, order books, ledgers, lists of plays etc
Folger Shakespeare Library
NRA 20981 Theatre Royal
4
1791-1898: minutes, accounts, corresp and financial papers
Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, Theatre and Performance Archives
NRA 23030 Theatre Royal
5
1747-1839: Corresp and papers
Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, Theatre and Performance Archives
See Accessions to Repositories 1965, 1972, 1973
6
1746-48: Drury Lane Theatre account book
Unknown location
NRA 5262 Theatre Royal Book

See Confidential
7
1770-77: misc papers among RB Sheridan papers
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: William Salt Library
NRA 8254 Salt's
8
1795-1812: Thomas Sheridan papers, mainly rel to Drury Lane Theatre
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 42720-23
9
19th-20th cent: manuscript performance material
British Library, Music Collections
Deposit 8213, Drury Lane Archive
See Annual Return 1998
10
c1739-1940: papers
London Metropolitan Archives: City of London
E/BER
NRA 28054 Russell

See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [90f]
11
1921-1927: treasury sheets rel to expenditure incl shows and production Rose Marie
Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, Theatre and Performance Archives
THM/400