Contrast a Comedy in Five Acts Author:Royall Tyler PREFACE vu among the first subscribers for the published play, of which he received two copies. He wrote his name in one and placed it in his library.1 Pursuing the further fortunes of this copy of "The Contn t," I begin bv quoting from L. E. Chittenden's " Personal Reminiscences, 1840-1890." " Many years ago," says Mr. Chittenden, "I began to c... more »ollect books relating to Vermont printed before 1850. . . . Omitting the pursuit of the numerous pamphlets touching the con* troversy between New YofK anH Vermont, re-""' lating to the New Hampshire grants, which are now worth more than their weight in silver, as shown by the prices paid for them at the Brin-ley sale, I will come at once to a legend which has ripened into a fact, in the history of the American theatre. The legend was that the first play written by an American author ever represented upon the American stage was written by a Vermonter, named Royal Tyler. He was known to have been a lawyer, a justice of the Vermont S
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