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Williams wrote at least three drafts, full copies of which have been identified in [[Columbia University]]'s Rare Book and Manuscript Library.<ref name="col"/> Draft fragments are held at [[Harvard University]]'s [[Houghton Library]]. The names of the drafts in chronological order are ''Tent Worms'', ''In Masks Outrageous and Austere,'' and ''Gideon's Point''. (A workshop production of ''Gideons' Point'' was produced at the [[Williamstown]] Theatre Festival in August 1982). Finally, an end draft ''Masks Outrageous'', edited by Williams with Gavin Lambert, was placed in the [[Columbia University]] archives in New York.<ref name="prosser"/>
Linda Dorff's work asserts the existence of only two drafts: ''In Masks Outrageous and Austere'', and ''Masks Outrageous''. Her 1970 date of Williams' first draft is at odds with the 1978 pointed to by other scholars. However, a draft of the play held by the [[New York Public Library for the Performing Arts]] does
According to Prosser, Dorff is unaware of the ''Gideon's Point'' production in Williamstown (p. 375, Linda Dorff's NYU Doctoral Thesis), which is mentioned by Prosser in his book ''The Late Plays of Tennessee Williams''.<ref name="prosser"/>
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