Thanks Bob, I'll try my contact again.
Q, The book you picked up, "Coppin the Great", is the only one written about the great man. I found it interesting although it's a bit hard to follow the dates at times. It's in this book that the song "We're All Dodging" is mentioned, but as there's a lot left out of the index, I'll have to hunt for it. I found that this book is very much like a lot of books about 19th Century performers in that the parts of their lives that interest us - the songs, the performances, are often not well covered. Funny. It's the same with Sam Cowell. ('though that one is full of colour, I thought).
I live a days trip away from the Coppin collection. Coppin's costumes are still preserved too. One day I'll sift through all the papers and see what I can find. Last time around it was one of his characters that I was studying, rather than the man himself.
                                                   Joy