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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…

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Libretto of Richard D'Oyly Carte's opera di camera in two acts Dr. Ambrosius, His Secret. "Written by H. B.," the libretto is founded on T. Haynes Bayley's farce Tom Noddy's Secret. It was privately performed at the St. George’s Opera House,…

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Secretarial letter, signed R. D'Oyly Carte," on engraved writing paper of “D’Oyly Carte’s Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company,” dealing with performance rights for The Pirates of Penzance

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Sheet music with illustrated cover in blue, brown, and orange tones featuring three dancing women holding sheer veils over their heads.

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Portrait photograph of Arthur Sullivan, on photographer's card mount by Chancellor, Dublin

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Order of Service for the funeral of Sir Arthur Sullivan at the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace. Last page deals with interment at St. Paul’s Cathedral and includes four stanzas of Sullivan’s anthem “Brother, thou art gone before us,” from The…

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First night program for W. S. Gilbert's musical extravaganza The Pretty Druidess; or, the Mother, the Maid and the Mistletoe Bough at the Charing Cross Theatre, London. The program also included the operatic sketch Coming of Age (music by E. L.…

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First night program for W. S. Gilbert's musical legend The Gentleman in Black (with music by Alfred Cellier) at the Charing Cross Theatre, London. The program also included the comedy Illusions (by Joseph J. Dilley) and the farce Captain Smith.

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Sheet music with illustrated cover in brown tones featuring five characters from Ages Ago emerging from picture frames.

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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…
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