The play was first published in 1873. The file contains materials related to rehearsal and performance, including a published copy (Berlin: Eduard Bloch, printed 1886; Eduard Bloch's Theater-Correspondenz No. 23, second edition); and 3 handwritten role books, for the following parts: Gustav; eine fremde Dame; and Gottlieb, Diener. (The play has a fourth role: Christoph Meier, Rentier--the uncle of Gustav). The published copy attributes music to A. Conradi. (No music is included here.) The role books are marked by hand as the property of Theodor Bloch, who ran a theater lending library in Philadelphia, and they evidently belong to a set that was prepared by Bloch, or at his direction. They are bare of any annotations and to all appearances were never actually used for a performance. The title is listed in Bloch's catalog for his library, dated 1886 (see box 34). Related to the play, although not to these specific items, see also a theater newspaper of May 1881 carrying an advertisement for a coming performance of it at Dramatic Hall ("zum ersten Mal in in Philadelphia"), in folder 702.
