Williams, Tennessee. Typed manuscipt for an untitled short story, 6 pages (one of the pages is another version of page 3). There is no name on the manuscript, but it was found with the other Tennessee Williams items offered here. There are six holograph corrections; pages are toned, with a few small chips and tears. The story is about "Miss Barbara," who calls herself "an emancipated southerner" and who travels on the income left her by her mother, $86.50 a month. She spends a lot of time on hotel verandahs, presently on the front porch of the Costa Verde hotel in Acapulco, trying to meet American strangers ("Natives somehow could not be relied upon for much interest in her emancipation…."). She eyes two young men, writers, who don't notice her in spite of all of her efforts. "Miss Barbara was a virgin entirely from choice. Sex had never actually entered her mind except as an abstract thing…." She hears one man tell the other that going to bed with women bores him, to which the other man asks why he doesn't try going to bed with a man. When the first man walks away, she tells the other man that she couldn't help overhearing, but that she is "completely emancipated! In spite of the fact I was bawn an' bred in the South!" The second man expresses his shock at the other man's suggestion, then leaves Miss Barbara "completely alone with the view."
Estimated Value $600 - 800.
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