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Title Financial documents, 1790s
Date Mar 1790-Dec 1799
Document Type Financial and Legal Document  
Library/Archive Victoria and Albert Museum  
Collection Name Theatre Royal Drury Lane Collection
Reference THM/101/2/2
Language English
Document Description First draft of Deed of Receivership of Drury Lane Theatre (Dated March 1790). Document describing the Trustees' Account of the £150,000 for the rebuilding of Drury Lane Theatre (Dated 1792). Leather bound notebook containing the Trust Deed for the Drury Lane Theatre (Dated 14 June 1793). Drury Lane Theatre: List of incumbrances since January 1793 from Register Books (1793-1798). Claim letters (1792, 1794, 1796, 1797 and 1799). Copy of a Memorandum of Agreement between R. B. Sheridan and Messrs Grubb and Richardson for the Management of Drury Lane Theatre (19 September 1795). Play Lists and Accounts of the Theatre (10 October 1795). Copy of a Deed of Trust for sale of 15 private boxes in Drury Lane Theatre between R. B. Sheridan and J. R. Drewe and Hugh Hammersley Esq. A short abstract is annexed to the front sheet with reference to the contents in each page (December 1796). Abstract of the Deed of Trust from Mr Sheridan to Mr Drewe and Hugh Hammersley (24 December 1796). Abstract of the deed document of 24 December 1796 referring to the Drury Lane Theatre. Note on front of document dated 1 Oct 1800 states ‘I do not know of any Deed of the 16 December 1796, except the 13 of that date mentioned in the second page of this Abstract, but I apprehend that the 16th was put in the Deed of 1790 by mistake instead of the 24th’. Letter from Thomas Skinner to Joseph Richardson (10 May 1799). Receipt from Thomas Skinner to Joseph Richardson for £315/0/0 containing a government tax seal (10 May 1799). Letters to Richard Wilson from Grubb and Richardson relating to ‘the Bill filed by the Trustees of Drury Lane Theatre against Mr Sheridan’ (14 March 1799). Copy of Sheridan’s proposals to Mr Kemble for the purchase of a quarter in the property of Drury Lane Theatre (5 December 1799).
Theme Business & Finance  
Theatre Theatre Royal Drury Lane  
Theatre Manager Sheridan, Richard Brinsley  
(Other) People Drewe, J R  Hammersley, Hugh  Skinner, Thomas  Richardson, Joseph  Wilson, Richard  
Keywords finance  theatre  business  accounts  earnings  
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