O'NEILL, EUGENE. Typed letter signed to a Mr. Rumsey, "Bellevue," Paget East, Bermuda, 21 May 1926. 1 1/4 pages, 4to, single-spaced, on rectos of two sheets of his imprinted stationery, a few minor marginal defects, with a brief sentence in O'Neill's holograph at end and with a few typographical corrections in his hand. An interesting letter regarding the playwright's negociations to purchase "Spithead," his home in Bermuda: "...I have notified the agents here that I cannot consider Mrs. Brown's $25,000 proposition, but that my original cash offer still holds good. I have absolutely come to the conclusion after going even more fully...into the expense involved in fixing Spithead up, that I cannot afford more than this...The Grays [the Bermuda real estate agents handling the sale] have a reputation here of being very sharp, mean, and also very stupid. They have spoiled very many sales by trying to be hogs and piling on the price to Americans. We have had to fight with them almost, to get any dope on Spithead..." O'Neill ends by asking Rumsey "to get a script of Marco Millions to the Theatre Guild..." Around this time in Bermuda O'Neill completed Lazarus Laughed and got a good start on Strange Interlude. Before the year was out he did buy "Spithead," an eighteenth-century house, and began extensive renovations.

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O'NEILL, EUGENE. Typed letter signed to a Mr. Rumsey, "Bellevue," Paget East, Bermuda, 21 May 1926. 1 1/4 pages, 4to, single-spaced, on rectos of two sheets of his imprinted stationery, a few minor marginal defects, with a brief sentence in O'Neill's holograph at end and with a few typographical corrections in his hand. An interesting letter regarding the playwright's negociations to purchase "Spithead," his home in Bermuda: "...I have notified the agents here that I cannot consider Mrs. Brown's $25,000 proposition, but that my original cash offer still holds good. I have absolutely come to the conclusion after going even more fully...into the expense involved in fixing Spithead up, that I cannot afford more than this...The Grays [the Bermuda real estate agents handling the sale] have a reputation here of being very sharp, mean, and also very stupid. They have spoiled very many sales by trying to be hogs and piling on the price to Americans. We have had to fight with them almost, to get any dope on Spithead..." O'Neill ends by asking Rumsey "to get a script of Marco Millions to the Theatre Guild..." Around this time in Bermuda O'Neill completed Lazarus Laughed and got a good start on Strange Interlude. Before the year was out he did buy "Spithead," an eighteenth-century house, and began extensive renovations.