BIB_ID
194069
Accession number
MA 4792.6
Creator
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975.
Display Date
[1938 January 28].
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, based on a letter to J. Dwight Dana in which he describes the week of Boston tryouts, it can be established that Wilder was in New Haven on January 29, 1938 (The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder, eds. Robin G. Wilder and Jackson R. Bryer (Harper, 2008), 338).
Written on letterhead of The Copley-Plaza, Boston.
The letter is undated. However, based on a letter to J. Dwight Dana in which he describes the week of Boston tryouts, it can be established that Wilder was in New Haven on January 29, 1938 (The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder, eds. Robin G. Wilder and Jackson R. Bryer (Harper, 2008), 338).
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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