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Bolivar. Numerous sketches, drafts, outlines, and other material related to Hollywood Producer Lester Cowan's abandoned film project about Simon Bolivar. Typical item: typed Memorandum dated September 8, 1956 to Philip H. Burton (who adopted and taught Richard Burton). Concise description of materials in this collection: black & white photo print of famous Simon Bolivar portrait by an anonymous painter; 8 page plot outline, typed MS with Cowan's notes in pencil and ink; 4 page typed "Memorandum" from Cowan to Burton dated September 8, 1956, including outline of plot, preface notes, & Continuity of Boliver, Santander, Manuela Story; second copy of same "Memorandum", Cowan to Burton 9/8/56, this copy with MS notes inked in margins and on small page attached to paper clipped section; 9/20/56 typed one page "Memorandum" Cowan to Burton, minor MS inked correction notes presumably by Cowan; copy of typed, stapled 10 page document, "Campaigns of Bolivar to be Reenacted in Actual Locales" (pl by Cowan, Lester listed for sale on Bibliophile Bookbase. Click here
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