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Purple dust : essay

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Irish writer Sean O'Casey (1880-1964) authored essays and autobiographical works but is best known for his plays.

"O'Casey, Sean, 1880-1964." Literature Online. http://lion.chadwyck.com (accessed March 19, 2007).

This handwritten manuscript is an early draft of an essay titled "Purple Dust in Their Eyes," published in

Under a Colored Cap, in response to Kenneth Tynan's negative review of O'Casey's 1943 comedy Purple Dust.

Box 8, F0167: Shelved in SPEC MSS 0099 manuscript boxes.

Purchase, 1987.

Processed and encoded by Debra Johnson, March 2007. Further encoded by George Apodaca, September 2015.

Publisher
University of Delaware Library Special Collections
Finding Aid Author
University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
Finding Aid Date
2007 March 19
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Collection Inventory

Sean O'Casey essay "Purple Dust", circa 1962.
Box 8 Folder F0167
Physical Description

Holograph essay, 5 pp.

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