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See: Hide and Seek
Arranged in alphabetical order.
Play, original typescript (carbon), 32 pages, first typed draft of a very early version. Later produced as Suddenly Last Summer.
Arranged in alphabetical order.
Screenplay, typescript (carbon), 109 pages, in an agency folder, with revised pages of the opening scene, 38 pages, for the later version. Unpublished in this version.
Arranged in alphabetical order.
Play, original typescript (carbon), 103 pages, includes Title, Production Notes, the Screen Device, the Music, the Lighting, the Characters, with a quotation from e e cummings on the title page. An early version, before the Screen Device was dropped. Margo Jones' copy (Assistant Director on this play).
Arranged in alphabetical order.
Short story, original typescript (carbon), 14 pages, with corrections in pencil on 4 pages. This story was later produced as a play.
Arranged in alphabetical order.
Moon of Pause, 1950
Novella, original typescript (carbon), 86 pages, in agency folder, with a one-page typed (carbon) note about this novella by Williams. An early unpublished version of The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone.
Arranged in alphabetical order.
Play, typescript (mimeograph), 92 pages, in leatherette folder. On the title page Audrey Wood (Williams' agent) has written "exact playing version, Jan. 1961, A.W." and there are corrections by her, in pencil on 42 pages. List of the the original cast laid in.
Arranged in alphabetical order.
See: Moon of Pause
Arranged in alphabetical order.
Play, in two acts, typescript with corrections (copy), 74 pages, title of "Confessional" crossed out, copyright 1970, revised version 1972, with a TLS (copy), 1972, by Mario De Maria of Ecco Productions to Gil Jones, and an invitation card for a preview of the play at the Truck & Warehouse Theatre, N.Y.
Arranged in alphabetical order.
See: Cabeza De Lobo or Composition in the 12-Tone Scale
Arranged in alphabetical order.
Summer and Smoke, 1947
Play, original red and black typescript, with a few pencil notations in scene one for changes, 129 pages, revised version, March 1947, in agency folder, with autograph note on corrections for scene two, by someone, from Williams. Early version, unpublished in this format.
Arranged in alphabetical order.
- Scope and Contents
Consists of early versions of seven works by Williams, including the original typescript of Summer and Smoke and the orginal carbon typescripts of Cabeza de Lobo or Composition in the 12-Tone Scale (Suddenly Last Summer), Hide and Seek (Baby Doll), and The Glass Menagerie or the Gentleman Caller. Also included are a mimeographed copy of Period of Adjustment or High Point is Built on a Cavern, the original typescript carbon of the novella Moon of Pause (The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone), and a short story, "The Kingdom of Earth," later rewritten as a play.
- Arrangement
Arranged in alphabetical order.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Williams
Tennessee Williams (1914-1983) was an American playwright, novelist, and storywriter.
- Acquisition:
Purchased from Black Sun Books in 1998 (AM1998-01).
- Custodial History
The collection is open to additions.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed in 2002. Finding aid written in 2002.
- Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use.
- Conditions Governing Use
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- Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
For preservation reasons, original analog and digital media may not be read or played back in the reading room. Users may visually inspect physical media but may not remove it from its enclosure. All analog audiovisual media must be digitized to preservation-quality standards prior to use. Audiovisual digitization requests are processed by an approved third-party vendor. Please note, the transfer time required can be as little as several weeks to as long as several months and there may be financial costs associated with the process. Requests should be directed through the Ask Us Form.
- Credit this material:
Tennessee Williams Manuscripts; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/2v23vt417
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1
