A few stout individuals / by John Guare, 2002.

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A few stout individuals / by John Guare, 2002.

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Historical play based loosely on the events of summer 1885, when former President Ulysses S. Grant, who was dying of cancer, struggled to finish his memoirs. The memoirs were later published by Grant's friend Mark Twain. Typescript, undated.

137 p. ; 28 cm.

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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SNAC Resource ID: 7967263

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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