BIB_ID
194068
Accession number
MA 4792.5
Creator
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975.
Display Date
[January 1938].
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1993.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 27.7 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of autograph manuscript revisions and correspondence related to "Our Town." Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information (MA 4792.1-9).
The letter is undated, however, Wilder was writing and revising the play from the summer of 1937 through to its opening night in New York on February 4, 1938; the play had tryouts in Princeton and Boston in January 1938 prior to opening on Broadway.
Written on The Copley-Plaza letterhead.
The letter is undated, however, Wilder was writing and revising the play from the summer of 1937 through to its opening night in New York on February 4, 1938; the play had tryouts in Princeton and Boston in January 1938 prior to opening on Broadway.
Written on The Copley-Plaza letterhead.
Provenance
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund in 1993.
Summary
Concerning "the opening of the Second Digression ("the Cartwright interests are building a bank....");" saying that "the sharp attack given by the new opening is fine as force [the words "as force" are underlined], but bewi[l]dering as meaning [the words "as meaning" are underlined]; closing with a possible rewrite of an opening speech by the Stage Manager; beginning "There are some more things we've got to explore about this Town."
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