Creator: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816 - Yale University Library Search Results

Creator:: From the Collection: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Published / Created:: 1800 Jun
Call Number:: OSB MSS 29
Container / Volume:: Box 1, folder +
Image Count:: 2
Description:: Anonymous manuscript.
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sheridan papers (OSB MSS 29) > "A List of the Principals of the Religious Communities from Abroad, now resident in England, & their Answers to the Circular letter"

Creator:: From the Collection: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Published / Created:: n.d.
Call Number:: GEN MSS 284
Container / Volume:: Volume 5
Image Count:: 235
Description:: Bound in three-quarter red morocco. p. i-iv; 1-215; [i-ii]. Purchase, 1936.
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Richard Brinsley Sheridan collection (GEN MSS 284) > Volumes > "THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL: A Comedy. As perform'd at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane...1777" Manuscript copy in an unidentified handwriting, probably used as a promptbook. The notes of authorship at the head of the "Prologue" and of the "Epilogue" are in Sheridan's autograph. Formerly the property of Albinia Bertie Hobart, Countess of Buckinghamshire, with her signature, "Albinia Buckinghamshire".

Creator:: From the Collection: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Published / Created:: n.d.
Call Number:: OSB MSS 29
Container / Volume:: Box 1, folder +
Image Count:: 1
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sheridan papers (OSB MSS 29) > Sheridan, Richard Brinsley Butler, 1751-1816 > Memoranda, holograph, on Irish and Catholic question

Creator:: From the Collection: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Published / Created:: [1800] Jun 15
Call Number:: OSB MSS 29
Container / Volume:: Box 1, folder +
Image Count:: 5
Description:: Reviews the situation of Roman Catholics in England and the reasons for their opposition to the Catholic bill in Parliament.
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sheridan papers (OSB MSS 29) > Milner, John, Bp. of Castabala, 1752-1826. ALS to R. B. Sheridan, Winchester

Creator:: From the Collection: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Published / Created:: n.d.
Call Number:: GEN MSS 284
Container / Volume:: Volume 7
Image Count:: 141
Description:: 141 folio l. written on one side of the paper. The paper is watermarked 1795. Gift, 1932.
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Richard Brinsley Sheridan collection (GEN MSS 284) > Volumes > THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL: Manuscript copy, written in a contemporary hand.

Creator:: From the Collection: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Published / Created:: n.d.
Call Number:: GEN MSS 284
Container / Volume:: Volume 6
Image Count:: 204
Description:: 199 ff. 22.5 cm. With David Garrick's Prologue and George Colman's Epilogue. The name of the former owner, Charles Laurence, is lettered in a Gothic hand on flyleaf. Bound in polished calf. Gift, 1951.
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Richard Brinsley Sheridan collection (GEN MSS 284) > Volumes > THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL: manuscript copy in a contemporary unidentified hand.

Creator:: From the Collection: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Published / Created:: n.d.
Call Number:: GEN MSS 284
Container / Volume:: Volume 4
Image Count:: 95
Description:: 140 p. 19 x 24 cm. With David Garrick's Prologue, and George Colman's Epilogue. AN signed George Chetwynd, on fly- leaf. Grandon Hall, [England] Sept. 10, 1834. This manuscript was damaged by fire in the bookbinding establishment of Fairburn, on February 26, 1834; the leaves of the ms were subsequently inlaid and bound in blind tooled russia with the arms of Sir George Chetwynd stamped on front and back covers. Three engraved portraits (2 of Sheridan and 1 of Mrs. Frances Abington) and several contemporary newspaper clippings bound in as preliminary leaves. Autographs of Wm. Chetwynd and Frances Brookes; bookplates of Sir George Chetwynd, Robert J. Collier, and Augustin Daly. Gift, 1947.
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Richard Brinsley Sheridan collection (GEN MSS 284) > Volumes > THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL: manuscript made by four copyists with numerous corrections in Sheridan's hand and a note signed by him, submitting the play for licensing to William Chetwynd early in 1777.