File NLW MS 23978E. - Richard Hughes' The Sisters' Tragedy

Identity area

Reference code

NLW MS 23978E.

Title

Richard Hughes' The Sisters' Tragedy

Date(s)

  • 1922, 1943 (Creation)

Level of description

File

Extent and medium

31 ff.

Some items guarded and some placed in melinex sleeves within ringed box at NLW.

Context area

Name of creator

Biographical history

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Dylans Bookstore; Swansea; Purchase; March 2008; 004494244.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Four items, 1922, relating to Richard Hughes' play, 'The Sisters' Tragedy', comprising a letter, 24 June [1922], from Hughes to the critic and playwright Padraic Colum concerning the production of the play (f. 2), enclosing a copy of the first edition, signed and corrected by Hughes (ff. 3-20), and a printed sheet of reviews (f. 21); and a cutting from The Weekly Westminster Gazette, 10 June 1922, p. 15, containing a review of the play (f. 1).
Also included is a programme, December 1943, for a production at the Belasco Theatre, New York City, of 'The Innocent Voyage', the stage adaptation of Hughes' novel A High Wind in Jamaica (London, 1929) (ff. 22-31).

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

Arranged chronologically at NLW.

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Conditions governing access

Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions set out in information provided when applying for their Readers' Tickets, whereby the reader shall become responsible for compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998 in relation to any processing by them of personal data obtained from modern records held at the Library.

Conditions governing reproduction

Usual copyright laws apply. Information regarding the ownership of Richard Hughes copyright can be found at http://tyler.hrc.utexas.edu/ (viewed January 2011).

Language of material

Script of material

Language and script notes

English.

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

A few folios fragile.

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Note

Title based on contents.

Note

Preferred citation: NLW MS 23978E.

Alternative identifier(s)

Virtua system control number

vtls004494244

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Description identifier

Institution identifier

Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales

Rules and/or conventions used

Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH

Status

Level of detail

Dates of creation revision deletion

June 2011.

Language(s)

  • English

Script(s)

Sources

Archivist's note

Description compiled by Rhys Morgan Jones;

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Physical storage

  • Text: NLW MS 23978E; $q - A few folios fragile.