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US ILfC SC/011-2-B03/F13
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Wheatle, William and Austin Daly. "The Wizard Skiff Promptbook"
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- n.d. (Creation)
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Lined manuscript copy book, 10" tall by 8" wide, two signatures sewn together in brown wrappers, though only the front wrapper of he first signature and the back cover of the second survive. Act 1, 22 pp., Act 2, 28 pp. On the front cover, in tall, underlined ink script, "The Wizard Skiff/Prompt Book." In pencil, lower right, "by Augustine [sic] Daly." Stamped "T. Goodwin, No. 7/ Vandams/ New York." The title-page reads: "W. Wheatley/The Wizard Skiff/or the/ Massacre of Scio/ A nautical and romantic Melodrama/ in Two Acts./Partly founded on the massacre of Scio, and/partly on a popular superstition prevalent/in the Greek Isles-/Written for Mad'lle. Celeste, by the author of/ The Spirit Bride" etc. -"
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