BIB_ID
194070
Accession number
MA 4792.7
Creator
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975.
Display Date
"Breakfast Wednesday" [1937-1938].
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1993.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 20.0 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.
Written on the letterhead of The Century Association, New York.
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.
Written on the letterhead of The Century Association, New York.
Provenance
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund in 1993.
Summary
Saying "I can perfectly well understand your feeling that on Second Thoughts I'd better not read the MSS" [of Our Town] for two reasons, first "That I'm not yet able sufficiently to construct a performance from a mere reading," and second, "that after so many months of teaching I have become merely headlong destructive in criticism;" mentioning that he hadn't read beyond the First Act of "Akropolis" [Aristophanes] saying that "It is good; better than most but it will have to be better still with such a battery of characters."
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