Record ID:
417149
Accession number:
MA 5756.2
Credit:
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description:
1 item (7 pages), bound ; 27.8 x 21.6 cm
Notes:
Act I of Williams' The first president, a libretto about George Washington. It was published in 1936 in Alfred Kreymborg's American Caravan.
Williams began working on The first president in 1932 when the modern composer George Antheil asked him to outline his Washington libretto and sketch out the acts.
Marked in red pencil by unknown hand throughout.
Housed in:
Black cloth drop-spine box (36 cm)
Provenance:
Carter Burden.
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