[Rarebooks] FS: Sean O'Casey HANDWRITTEN LETTER on Eugene O'Neill

[Charles Agvent]

 From our new catalog just listed on our website: LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS, 
Part I:

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O'CASEY, Sean. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS). Torquay, Devon, 22 May 
1957. A two-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) on both sides of a 5-1/2" 
x 7" personal stationery to Philip Burton with excellent content. In 
part: "For Christ's sake, man, don't bother your head about what you 
read in the TIMES. There was nothing objectionable in it that I could 
see. Rather, it was a kindly reference. Tho' you didn't act out the 
whole play, you did a good deal of it; & tho' I didn't laugh 
uproariously, I was amused. I was too intently interested to laugh a 
lot. And it is true to say that I wished I have had a rehearsal of P. 
Dust, such as yours, before I sent the original script to the 
publishers. The one reference I didn't like was the reference, not to 
me, but to the Great O'Neill, who wasn't really 'a cantankerous fellow'; 
neither was he a very charming man; & who did not scorn a tip or two if 
it came from an intelligent commentator. O'Neill had a great respect for 
Nathan and B. Atkinson -- to mention two critics -- , tho' not 
necessarily agreeing with everything they said about his work." SIGNED 
as "Sean." Along with the original envelope addressed and SIGNED as 
"O'Casey." Crease from mailing, otherwise Fine.

Philip Burton was a Welsh-born acclaimed theatre director, best known 
for helping a young actor, Richard Jenkins, to pursue his career. They 
were so close that Jenkins changed his name to Richard Burton. Philip 
Burton directed a production of O'Casey's PURPLE DUST that opened 27 
December 1956 at the Cherry Lane Theater in New York, and ran for 480 
performances, the longest-lasting production of any O'Casey drama. 
(#019418) $1,000.00

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