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O'Neill at Tao House: 1937-1944
 
4/22/37 Eugene and Carlotta O'Neill place a $15,000 deposit on 158 acres in the San Ramon Valley Hills above Danville, CA.  They ultimately paid $75,000 for the property plus $6,000 for adjacent properties.
12/22/37 The O'Neills move into Tao House
O'Neill's tremor becomes serious
He is frequently ill, has prostate problems
Feb. 1938 The Greed of the Meek first draft is finished
Sept. 1938 Finishes first draft of More Stately Mansions (Later drafts through 1941)
1935-1942 A Touch of the Poet written
1938 The Calms of Capricorn drafted
O'Neill's interest in oriental philosophy grows
His son, Shane, visits Tao House
1939 Writes The Iceman Cometh
Works on the cycle plays
Continued depression over world affairs, Poland invaded
Writes Long Day's Journey into Night (through 1941)
1940 Writes Hughie
1941 Writes A Moon for the Misbegotten
Works on Cycle plays, By Way of Obit, The Last Conquest
Pearl Harbor bombed
1942 Rift with daughter, Oona
1943 Oona and Charles Chaplin, who is older than O'Neill, wed
1944 O'Neill's lose driver and servants due to war efforts, both ill, sell Tao House and move to Huntington Hotel, San Francisco, burn some drafts and scenarios of Cycle, By Way of Obit.
 

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