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Ref No	MWT/MUS/1/1446
Collection	Max Tyler Music Hall Collection
Title	Waiting At The Church (My Wife Won’t Let Me)
Name of creator	Vesta Victoria, performer
Date	1906
Extent	1 sheet music
Description	Sheet music for piano and voice, titled “Waiting at the Church (My Wife Won’t Let Me)”, appearing as two bifold folio sheets (8 pages total). The front cover features a lithograph of Vesta Victoria in a bridal gown, with two cartoons of a proposal and a bride with a sign on her back that reads “To Let”. The top of the page dedicates the piece to Mark Melford Esq. The melody and three stanzas are listed on the inside back cover. The sheet has been cut at the top.
Notes	Also includes a list of Francis & Day’s Musical Copyrights on the back page.
	The front and back cover sheets are nearly detached.
	Record created by volunteers during the Hands On History project in 2019
Subject	Musical Theatre
	Comedy
	Music Hall
	Songs
PhysicalDescription	252 x 345mm, back ink printed on paper
Related Person	Pether, Henry E., composer
	Leigh, Fred W., lyricist
	Vesta Victoria, performer
Related Organisation	Francis, Day & Hunter, publisher
Related Place	London
Related Place	New York
Category	Sheet music
Access conditions	This material is available for consultation at the University of Kent's Special Collections & Archives reading room, Templeman Library, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NU (specialcollections@kent.ac.uk).
Copyright	Material within the archive may remain within copyright under the terms of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Special Collections & Archives staff will assist where possible in helping trace copyright holders, but it is ultimately the responsibility of users to obtain the permission of the copyright holder for reproduction of copyright material for uses other than research or private study.
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