BIB_ID
194071
Accession number
MA 4792.8
Creator
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975.
Display Date
"Tuesday morning" [1937-1938].
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1993.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 21.5 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.
With a paper-clip rust stain.
Written on Columbia University Club 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.
With a paper-clip rust stain.
Written on Columbia University Club letterhead.
Provenance
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund in 1993.
Summary
Saying he was "glad to hear you say that you were willing to reopen the matter of the additions and alterations to the material of the First Act [of Our Town];" discussing specific script changes in depth; agreeing to accept cuts "with the exception of one in the Third Act; and my feeling that the Love Scene has become so spare that the transitions from thought to thought sound a little unnatural;" taking exception to Harris' additions, which he lists and criticizes; adding that if Harris would agree to the changes,"I would be sitting out front as happy as a cricket."
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