23. Morgan Smith, Marylebone Theatre, 1868

This is part of a playbill advertising the appearance of a celebrated black actor on 26 May. He was to play ‘Gambia’, in a romantic play set in Surinam. The theatre was in Church Street, and it was a benefit performance for Miss Nellie McEwen, an actress who lived at 11 Cosway Street, and may herself have been of African descent.

Morgan Smith, Marylebone Theatre, 1868