Scope and Contents The collection includes two typescripts and a single letter by Padraic Colum. The letter was written in 1927 to M.J. Fitzsimons, SJ, of Boston College. The typescripts are of Colum's plays: Timbuktu (1953) and Kilmore (1966). Timbuktu includes additions and deletions in Colum's own hand. It is a three-act comedy about the fabled African city of Timbuktu; also adapted by Colum under the titles: The Desert; The Vizier; and Mogu the Wanderer. Kilmore is a first draft of an unpublished, one-act...

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