Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

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Date:	1700-1900
Places:	London
Functions, occupations and activities:	Domestic and leisure services > Theatres
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C102086 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B9265 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	c1740-c1851: journals, accounts, pay books, ledgers, lists of plays, etc	Folger Shakespeare Library		NRA 20981 Theatre Royal
2	18th cent - 19th cen: accounts, ledgers, pay-book, diaries of receipts, expenditure and plays performed, letter book, schedules of wardrobes and furniture, agreements with musicians, deeds	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Eg MSS 2267-2319; Add MSS 23156-67, 29365, 29631, 29946-58,	See 31972-977, 33218, Add Ch 9290-9321
3	1768-70, 1807-22: Cash receipt book, lists of plays performed, staff and wages records	Harvard University: Houghton Library		See Manuscripts in the Baker Library 1978, p87
4	1756: Account book of John Dunstall, recording purchasers of seats, with some prices	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 61997
5	1825-26: volume of playbills collected for the Garrick Club	London University: Senate House Library	MS 1001	NRA 19298 London Univ L