Letters : to Maude Adams and Charles Frohman, 1897-1928.

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Letters : to Maude Adams and Charles Frohman, 1897-1928.

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Includes 29 letters from Barrie to Adams, congratulating her on her past performances, invitations to come visit Barrie in Scotland, and travel plans. Barrie also tells Adams of current play projects he is working on, parts in his plays he thinks would be suitable for her to act, and asks her opinions about other plays she has seen. The 13 letters from Barrie to Frohman discuss ideas for staging his production of the Taming of the Shrew and other productions, and tells him of news from Adams. Collection also contains an unsigned autograph manuscript of Barrie's Golf Croquet and a section of his play What Every Woman Knows from the third act.

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