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- 1 2 3 The Pitt Estate in Dean Street: The Royalty Theatre, Survey of London: volumes 33 and 34: St Anne Soho (1966), pp. 215-21, accessed 15 January 2009
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- ↑ The Saturday Review Ixxix, 26 January 1895, pp. 126