Richard Hughes' The Sisters' Tragedy

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 23978E.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004494244
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1922, 1943
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 31 ff.
      Some items guarded and some placed in melinex sleeves within ringed box at NLW.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

Four items, 1922, relating to Richard Hughes' play, 'The Sisters' Tragedy', comprising a letter, 24 June [1922], from Hughes to the critic and playwright Padraic Colum concerning the production of the play (f. 2), enclosing a copy of the first edition, signed and corrected by Hughes (ff. 3-20), and a printed sheet of reviews (f. 21); and a cutting from The Weekly Westminster Gazette, 10 June 1922, p. 15, containing a review of the play (f. 1).
Also included is a programme, December 1943, for a production at the Belasco Theatre, New York City, of 'The Innocent Voyage', the stage adaptation of Hughes' novel A High Wind in Jamaica (London, 1929) (ff. 22-31).

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically at NLW.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Dylans Bookstore; Swansea; Purchase; March 2008; 004494244.

Note

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 23978E.

Physical Characteristics and/or Technical Requirements

A few folios fragile.

Archivist's Note

June 2011.

Description compiled by Rhys Morgan Jones;

Conditions Governing Use

Usual copyright laws apply. Information regarding the ownership of Richard Hughes copyright can be found at http://tyler.hrc.utexas.edu/ (viewed January 2011).

Additional Information

Published

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