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Tennessee Williams Collection, Accession 6694-e, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Purchase 1986 October 14
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
one signed "10 Wms" in pencil
written while living in St. Louis, Missouri .
undated, with a note on the verso, dated September 10, 1956, by Edwina [Dakin Williams ?] , describing this poem as "the original and only copy"
probably about his sister Rose who had recently undergone a prefrontal lobotomy as a cure for her schizophrenia
perhaps commissioned by the Daughters of the American Revolution for a deceased member
possibly later incorporated into his Memoir
possibly based upon his experiences on his voyage to Europe when sixteen
[writes about entering the University of Iowa 's drama department]
[writes concerning their drama department and requests a catalogue]
[thanks them for the Group Theater Prize of one hundred dollars awarded to him for American Blues and mentions his employment as a featherpicker on a squab ranch near Los Angelos and his new job in a shoe store]
[decribes how Tennessee Williams ' play Stairs to the Roof was based on his shoe store job], initialed by Williams
[concerns limited letter writing]