O'Neill's play "Exorcism", based on an attempted suicide in 1912, was first produced in 1920 at the Playwrights Theater in Greenwich Village, New York.
Description:
Draft, typescript, corrected of only known surviving manuscript of the play. Presented as a gift to Philip Yordan and accompanied by an envelope inscribed by Agnes Boulton, [1940s?].
Subject (Name):
Boulton, Agnes, 1893-1968, Kaufman, Morris, Playwrights Theater of New York, and Yordan, Philip --Ownership
Subject (Topic):
American literature --20th century, Authors, American --20th century, and Dramatists, American --20th century
Collection consists of drafts and printed versions of poems, including the printed collection, Poetic Works, corrected and inscribed, and typescript drafts of To My Lovelily and The Birth of Woman. Accompanied by biographical notes, in an unidentified hand, dating the publication of the printed volume to 1919.
Subject (Topic):
African American authors --20th century --Archives, American literature --20th century, and American poetry --20th century
Collection consists of drafts and printed versions of poems, including the printed collection, Poetic Works, corrected and inscribed, and typescript drafts of To My Lovelily and The Birth of Woman. Accompanied by biographical notes, in an unidentified hand, dating the publication of the printed volume to 1919.
Description:
Typescript poem.
Subject (Topic):
African American authors --20th century --Archives, American literature --20th century, and American poetry --20th century
Collection consists of drafts and printed versions of poems, including the printed collection, Poetic Works, corrected and inscribed, and typescript drafts of To My Lovelily and The Birth of Woman. Accompanied by biographical notes, in an unidentified hand, dating the publication of the printed volume to 1919.
Description:
Typescript poem.
Subject (Topic):
African American authors --20th century --Archives, American literature --20th century, and American poetry --20th century
Collection consists of drafts and printed versions of poems, including the printed collection, Poetic Works, corrected and inscribed, and typescript drafts of To My Lovelily and The Birth of Woman. Accompanied by biographical notes, in an unidentified hand, dating the publication of the printed volume to 1919.
Description:
MS notes in pencil on long sheet of newsprint.
Subject (Topic):
African American authors --20th century --Archives, American literature --20th century, and American poetry --20th century
Collection consists of drafts and printed versions of poems, including the printed collection, Poetic Works, corrected and inscribed, and typescript drafts of To My Lovelily and The Birth of Woman. Accompanied by biographical notes, in an unidentified hand, dating the publication of the printed volume to 1919.
Description:
Corrected and annotated in pencil. and Typescript, corrected.
Subject (Topic):
African American authors --20th century --Archives, American literature --20th century, and American poetry --20th century