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La Jeunesse de Louis XIV. Act 1, scene 10 : autograph manuscript fragment.

BIB_ID
197436
Accession number
MA 14176
Creator
Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870, author.
Display Date
place not identified, 1853.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 18.1 x 28.1
Notes
Written on light blue-green paper.
Fragment from a manuscript of the play by Dumas, containing an exchange between Moliere and the King which takes place at the end act 1, scene 10, and which differs markedly from the published text of 1854.
Written in left hand margin in pen in an unidentified hand: Part of a play / written by Alex Dumas Sen / for Mon E. Burton / in the handwriting of / Dumas. Attested / by Martiner[?] Thompson.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.