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Purple dust : playscript

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Irish author Sean O'Casey (1880-1964) wrote 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 is a bound typescript draft of a playscript for Sean O'Casey's "Purple Dust," with some pencil corrections in an unknown hand. The playscript is autographed by previous owner Robert Sisk (theatre agent).

Box 29, F0496: Shelved in SPEC MSS 0099 manuscript boxes.

Purchase, 1995.

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 "Purple Dust" playscript, [1939].
Box 29 Folder F0496
Physical Description

Bound typescript of a playscript, 120 pp.

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