Object Details
- General note
- Author's original corrected typescript, with manuscript revisions.
- Collection Creator
- Train, Russell E., 1920-2012
- Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian. Libraries)
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- Russell E. Train Africana collection
- Russell E. Train Africana collection / Series 5: Manuscripts
- Extent
- 1 Item (Manuscripts (document genre), 9 x 11.25 x 2 in. (box))
- Date
- circa 1925
- Container
- Item M050
- Archival Repository
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Rights
- The collection is housed in the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History, which is open to researchers Monday through Friday in the afternoons, from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m.; morning visits are by appointment only. Please call (202) 633-1184 or email AskaLibrarian@si.edu for an appointment.
- Scope and Contents note
- A draft of a novel about the war-time romance and marriage of a British soldier with artistic talent.This novel was previously entitled "His Friend Peter" and it is under this title that the accompanying criticism by R.H. Ambrose deals with the work. "This is a remarkably good attempt at fiction. Indeed, I am of the opinion that the author has a definite flair for work of this kind. The construction of the story is good, the unraveling of the 'plot' very well achieved and the reader's attention held to the end, all good features. Unfortunately much of the work is now out of date and although quite an amount of the script could be retained (subject to revision of unnecessarily prolonged scenes), the story would have to be brought up to date before submission to publishers. This would entail modernizing and re-writing at least 50% of the manuscript. I hope the author will undertake this, for there is undoubted talent in the script."
- Record ID
- ebl-1503510890585-1503510890689-2
