I've got a little list : encore verse : autograph manuscript draft with corrections.

Record ID: 
417881
Accession number: 
GSC 111344.2
Creator: 
Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), 1836-1911, author.
Biographical Data: 
English dramatist, author, librettist, stage director, and illustrator.
Title: 
I've got a little list : encore verse : autograph manuscript draft with corrections.
Uniform title: 
Mikado. Act 1. I've got a little list. Selections
Credit Line: 
Gift of Reginald Allen.
Notes: 

No place of writing is given; manuscript unsigned and undated.
Verse includes 11 lines, with 2 corrections and an additional portion of a line written in in pencil.
Autograph manuscript draft of an "encore" verse for Ko-Ko's song "I've got a little list", from Act I of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera The Mikado; evidently written by W.S. Gilbert for the 1908 revival at the Savoy Theatre, and including topical references to "the lovely suffragist", "the red-hot socialist", and "all dramatic censors"; with "& little Englands Statesmen" added in pencil within a space above the last line.
Library has another manuscript of W.S. Gilbert's "encore" verse for this song, evidently an draft, with corrections incorporated into this version (see GSC 111344.1); the two manuscripts housed together.

Provenance: 

Reginald Allen.

Associated names: 

Libretto for (work): Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900. Mikado.
Allen, Reginald, former owner.