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Small white ceramic mug with H.M.S. Pinafore design, featuring Sir Joseph Porter, Captain Corcoran, and Little Buttercup in foreground, captioned "H.M.S. Pinafore"

Horizontal cabinet photo of three actors in top hats and eight actresses in fairy costumes (five standing, three seated on the floor).

Souvenir of the 65th performance of The Gondoliers by Francis Wilson & Co. at the Broad Street Theatre, Philadelphia.

Libretto for Captain Billy, an operetta in one act written for the Savoy Theatre, London. Words by Harry Greenbank, and music by François Cellier.

Business reply post card detailing the posters shipped from Richard D'Oyly Carte at the Savoy Theatre, London, to Mr. R. Morgan at the Theatre Royal, Norwich, in anticipation of D'Oyly Carte's "Gondoliers" Company's visit to Norwich. Mr. Morgan is…

Photograph of two female performers in Princess Ida. Photo is stamped on back "Stage Photo Co., London."

Album page with four bars of music with lyric from Ages Ago: "Tis done - the spell is broken, We must away we must away (Ages Ago)" signed "Frederic Clay, New York, 29 April 1880." The reverse has a similar musical quote from Alfred Cellier's…

Autograph manuscript full score of On Shore and Sea, dramatic cantata for large orchestra, soloists and chorus. The manuscript is displayed open to a portion of the opening chorus "The Windlass ply."

Autograph manuscript full score of "I will mention the lovingkindnesses," Easter anthem for tenor solo, chorus, and organ. Dedicated to John Stainer.

Gilbert seeks permission to call his new play "On Guard". It opened at the Court Theatre, London, on October 28, 1871, but ran for only three weeks. Mrs. Cudlip is the author Annie Thomas, whose novel On Guard was published in 1865. Gilbert proposed…