Conrad, Joseph

Laughing Anne. Corrected typescript with more than 100 autograph revisions on 33 pp. 42 pp, numbered by act 2-24 and 2-16 (first page of each act unnumbered) and 2 leaves for the wrappers (10 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.; 257 x 204 mm). [Capel House, Orlestone, Kent, c. 1923]; typed in blue (dialogue) and red (stage directions) and corrected with pencil and blue ink; the autograph corrections are typo corrections as well as text corrections; glazed calico slipcase; lacking the third scene of the second act, hole punch in the upper left corner, folding and little tears on margins.

Cagle A59

Lacking the third scene of the second act, hole punch in the upper left corner, folding and little tears on margins.
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Laughing Anne is a dramatization of Conrad's story Because of the Dollars, first published in Within the Tides in 1915.