BIB_ID
195260
Accession number
MA 4792.4
Creator
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975.
Display Date
[1937-1938].
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1993.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 26.7 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.
Written on "The Copley-Plaza" letterhead.
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.
Written on "The Copley-Plaza" letterhead.
Provenance
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund in 1993.
Summary
Being 14 lines of dialogue written for Emily, Mrs. Gibbs and the Stage Manager; being titled "Suggestion for the Close of the Play;" beginning "Emily :They don't understand much, do they?"
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