urn:taro:utexas.hrc.00403 Thornton Wilder: An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center Finding aid created by Joan Sibley and Michael Ramsey Harry Ransom Center, 2011 Finding aid encoded by Joan Sibley, 13 May 2011 Finding aid written in English. Collection Summary Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 Thornton Wilder Collection 1880-1968, undated 1 document box, 1 oversize box (1.84 linear feet), 1 galley folder (gf) Includes manuscripts and letters written by or related to the American playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder. A printed version of Our Town includes handwritten notes by Orson Welles for a Mercury Theatre radio broadcast. English Manuscript Collection MS-4517 Access:

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Note: This finding aid replicates and replaces information previously available only in a card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at the end of this finding aid for information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts as well as the abbreviations commonly used in descriptions.

 Container List Works: 2.1 The Bridge of San Luis Rey, handwritten manuscript, hand lettered by Rafaello Busoni with 88 original drawings by him, 179 pages, 15 August 1940 - 25 February 1941. gf 1 The Eighth Day, galley proofs, 148 pages, 1967. 1.1 Giordano Bruno's last meal in Finnegans Wake, mimeo 10 pages, undated. Inscribed to Francis Steloff, includes ALS Wilder to Steloff, 4 August 1962. 1.2 Our Town, a play in three acts, printed book with pages separated from and loosely laid in casing. With Orson Welles' handwritten notes and cuts and with typed inserts laid in, 75 leaves, circa 1939-1940. For a proposed Mercury Theatre radio broadcast. 1.3 The Skin of Our Teeth (screen treatment), mimeo / first draft 139 pages, undated. Treatment by Mary Ellen Bute, with handwritten note signed 30 December 1966. Letters: 1.4 2 ALS to Ballou, Robert, 6 February 1936, 7 April 1960. 1.4 Handwritten memo to Connolly, Cyril, re Frank Budgen's Joyce chapters on going forth by day, September - October 1941? Written on this: signed handwritten note by Connolly. 1.5 8 ALS, 2 APCS, 1 Christmas card to Healy, John Vincent, 1932-1940, undated. 1.4 ALI to Senn, Fritz, 19 June 1968. 1.4 ALS to Wilson, 28 March 1937. Miscellaneous: 1.6 Albatross Verlag. Memorandum of agreement with Wilder re The Bridge of San Luis Rey, signed printed document, 2 pages, 25 May 1932. 1.6 Albatross Verlag. Memorandum of agreement with Wilder re The Cabala, signed printed document, 2 pages, 13 July 1934.