Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

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Date:	1684-2000
Places:	London
Functions, occupations and activities:	Domestic and leisure services > Theatres
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C96357 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B9270 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1919-1921: house receipt book No 1	London University: Senate House Library	MS1260	See Annual Return 2019
2	1684-19th cent: list of shareholders, papers rel to patent, receipts, recitation addresses, Sheridan's corresp incl accounts and memoranda	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Eg MS 1975; Add MSS 7117, 20726, 27899-900, 29709-11, 32428
3	c1714-c1880: journals, accounts, pay books, inventories, order books, ledgers, lists of plays etc	Folger Shakespeare Library		NRA 20981 Theatre Royal
4	1791-1898: minutes, accounts, corresp and financial papers	Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, Theatre and Performance Archives		NRA 23030 Theatre Royal
5	1747-1839: Corresp and papers	Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, Theatre and Performance Archives		See Accessions to Repositories 1965, 1972, 1973
6	1746-48: Drury Lane Theatre account book	Unknown location		NRA 5262 Theatre Royal Book See Confidential
7	1770-77: misc papers among RB Sheridan papers	Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: William Salt Library		NRA 8254 Salt's
8	1795-1812: Thomas Sheridan papers, mainly rel to Drury Lane Theatre	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 42720-23
9	19th-20th cent: manuscript performance material	British Library, Music Collections	Deposit 8213, Drury Lane Archive	See Annual Return 1998
10	c1739-1940: papers	The London Archives: City of London	E/BER	NRA 28054 Russell See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [90f]
11	1921-1927: treasury sheets rel to expenditure incl shows and production Rose Marie	Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, Theatre and Performance Archives	THM/400