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Guests included some of London’s most influential creative men including Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Edwin Landseer, George Du Maurier, Frederick Leighton, and Frederick Walker, who designed Lewis’s engraved invitation card from 1865 to 1871.\r\n\r\nFollowing Offenbach’s <i>Les Deux Aveugles </i>at a previous event, Burnand suggested that he and the 24-year old Sullivan set John Maddison Morton’s 1847 farce <i>Box and Cox </i>as an operetta. With its plot concerning a hatter and a printer who unbeknown to each other occupy the same room in lodgings due to their working hours, it was repeated at Moray House on 27th April 1867, and with Sullivan’s orchestration for benefits at the Adelphi Theatre on 11th May 1867, and at Manchester Theatre Royal on 29th July 1867. It had its first professional run at the German Reeds' Royal Gallery of Illustration in Regent Street from 29th March 1869, and featured in the D’Oyly Carte repertoire after its inclusion at the Savoy Theatre on 31st December 1894.\r\n\r\n","physicalDescription":"Pictorial and typographic poster advertising a production of the comic opera <i>Cox and Box</i> at the Royal  Gallery of Illustration, Regent Street, London, 1869. 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Playwright: F.C. Burnand. Composer: Arthur S. Sullivan. Royal Gallery of Illustration, Regent Street, London. 29.3.1869. 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