BIB_ID
194069
Accession number
MA 4792.6
Creator
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975.
Display Date
[1937-1938].
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1993.
Description
1 item ( 2 p.) ; 23.9 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 prior to opening on Broadway.
Written on letterhead of The Copley-Plaza, Boston.
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 prior to opening on Broadway.
Written on letterhead of The Copley-Plaza, Boston.
Provenance
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund in 1993.
Summary
Concerning final tryouts for "Our Town;" saying that "Now it's time for me to retire for the play for a while and get a 'fresh eye';" saying that he is going to New Haven for a "couple of days" and saying that he has "a whole set of Nature's Warnings = twitches, and stutterings and headaches;" adding, in a postscript, that he is still at the hotel working on some "closing lines" and will bring them to the theatre that evening.
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