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The second part of Cecilia and Clorinda, or, Love in arms, a tragi-comedy [manuscript], ca. 1650.

Killigrew, Thomas, 1612-1683, author.; Sunderland, Dorothy Sidney, Countess of, 1617-1684.; Carew, Thomas, 1595?-1639?; Thorn-Drury, George, 1860-1931, former owner.
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Title
The second part of Cecilia and Clorinda, or, Love in arms, a tragi-comedy [manuscript], ca. 1650.
Uniform title
Cicilia & Clorinda. 2nd part
Description
[2], 51 p.
Associated name
Killigrew, Thomas, 1612-1683, author.
Sunderland, Dorothy Sidney, Countess of, 1617-1684.
Carew, Thomas, 1595?-1639?
Thorn-Drury, George, 1860-1931, former owner.
Scope and content
Autograph manuscript of Thomas Killigrew. Not divided into acts. Dedicated to Lady Dorothy Sydney, countess of Sunderland. Written in Florence, ca. 1650 (see Thomas Killigrew by A. Harbage) and printed in the first edition of Killigrew's plays, 1664 (Wing K450). It is apparently the manuscript described as an autograph manuscript in Sotheby's sale catalog of the Thorn-Drury collection, February 22, 1932, no. 2407.
Note
At the end is a song of Thomas Carew's listed in the Folger index of first lines.

See also: The first part of Cecilia and Clorinda, or, Love in arms, a tragi-comedy (Folger MS V.b.208).

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Provenance
Thorn-Drury MS.
Formerly Folger MS 4458
Genre/form
Manuscripts (documents)
Plays (performing arts compositions)
Place of creation/publication
Italy -- Florence.

Call number
V.b.209
Folger accession
4458