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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D7686/BOX/22
TitlePlays by L. du Garde Peach
Date20th cent
DescriptionPlays - "Adaptations from Foreign Authors"

The following works seem to have been actually written by Peach himself and passed off as the work of others, in order that he might not appear too prolific!

A Knife In Her Stocking (3 copies, adapted from "Un Coltello Nella Sua Calza" by Vittorio Bertolini, one with photographs of production, one copy in manuscript, 1967)

Where Witches Do Inhabit (Ahol boszorkányok laknak), by Vladimir Czuczor, 1969 (2 copies, from Hungarian)

Purely Promiscuous, adapted from the French Comedy "Symphonie A Deux Lits"

Press Articles and Sketches

Folder of typed draft articles, sketches, etc, marked "Punch", c1930s

Folder of typed draft articles, sketches, etc, marked "Newnes" [i.e. publications established by George Newnes, such as "Strand" and "Tit-Bits"], c1930s
LevelFile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorLawrence du Garde Peach of Great Hucklow, dramatist (1890-1974)
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