[Rarebooks] FS: Handwritten drama set in Napoleonic era

[Bob Petrilla]

Fessenden, Samuel.  THE CONSPIRACY: A TRAGEDY IN FOUR ACTS [original
manuscript].  Original manuscript. 1880s.  145pp. Very neatly written in
sepia ink into a copybook with Harvard Cooperative Society cover label.
Cloth spine wormed, joints and hinges holding.  8" x 6.5"  Good.
Cloth-backed boards.
This original drama, set in the Napoleonic era, centers on a royalist
conspiracy to remove Napoleon from power. The author describes himself as
"a graceless sinner with scarce sufficient cash to buy a dinner" and says
that his play is "the production of a summer day / that t'ain't expected
that a college boor / should write like Congreve, or like Otway poor...."
In his Epilogue to the Conspiracy, "written by the author and spoken in the
character of Rosey," Fessenden apologizes to the ladies for boring them,
&c., &c. The author, Samuel Fessenden, was a member of a prominent Maine
family. (#036578)        $150.00

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