The Cape Mail
The Cape Mail is a one act play by Clement Scott (1841–1904)[1]
Founded on an incident in Jeanne qui Pleure et Jeanne qui Rit, a French comedy in four acts by (1859) by Philippe François Pinel Dumanoir and Ange de Kéraniou (published in January 1860 by Michel Lévy frères and first performed in Paris at the Gymnase-dramatique, 4 April 1860).
Scott adapted the play to deal with the battle of Rorke's Drift (1879). Originally published: London , S. French in 1881, as French's acting edition, no. 1784.; and London and New York: Macmillan, 1899.
First performed at the Vaudeville Theatre, London on 11 October, 1897, playing till 2 February 1898.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011541633
http://www.worldcat.org/title/cape-mail-a-drama-in-one-act/oclc/9151818
J.P. Wearing. 2013. The London Stage 1890-1899: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Scarecrow Press: p. 358[2]
