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Our town : autograph manuscript revision, [1937-1938].

BIB_ID
195259
Accession number
MA 4792.3
Creator
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975.
Display Date
[1937-1938].
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1993.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.7 cm.
Notes
Part of a collection which includes a corrected typescript, 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 autograph manuscript 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.
Provenance
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund in 1993.
Summary
Being one page with 14 lines of dialogue for Radical and Mr. Webb; being titled "Appendix B" and "The Answer to the radical's speech;" beginning "Radical: Then why don't they do something about it?"