BIB_ID
411649
Accession number
MA 9518.5
Creator
Gielgud, John, 1904-2000.
Display Date
[1973] July 12.
Credit line
Bequest of Mrs. John C. Hughes, 1980.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 16.0 x 20.3 cm
Notes
Written on stationery printed "John Gielgud / 16 Cowley Street / London S.W.1."
This collection was previously accessioned as MA 4260.
Part of a large collection of letters to Mrs. Hughes bequeathed to The Morgan Library & Museum by Mrs. Hughes in 1980. The collection includes letters from statesmen, politicians, authors and others involved in the arts. Items in the collection have been described in individual records; see collection-level record for more information (MA 9518.1-19).
Margaret Kelly Hughes, known as "Mardi", was the wife of John Chambers Hughes (1891-1971), the U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO from 1953-1955. Margaret Hughes lived in France during World War II and volunteered to help French prisoners of war held in Meaux. She was decorated three times by the French Government for her service to the country and wrote "Les Lauriers sont Coupés" about her experiences during the war.
This collection was previously accessioned as MA 4260.
Part of a large collection of letters to Mrs. Hughes bequeathed to The Morgan Library & Museum by Mrs. Hughes in 1980. The collection includes letters from statesmen, politicians, authors and others involved in the arts. Items in the collection have been described in individual records; see collection-level record for more information (MA 9518.1-19).
Margaret Kelly Hughes, known as "Mardi", was the wife of John Chambers Hughes (1891-1971), the U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO from 1953-1955. Margaret Hughes lived in France during World War II and volunteered to help French prisoners of war held in Meaux. She was decorated three times by the French Government for her service to the country and wrote "Les Lauriers sont Coupés" about her experiences during the war.
Provenance
Bequest of Mrs. John C. Hughes, 1980.
Summary
Expressing his sympathy on her recent fall and telling her he had a fall six weeks ago..."Cut my head on a spiky doorstop, but they sewed it up very successfully and it hardly shows. Everyone round us seems to be dying or ill, weather stuffy and lowering, and the World news - Watergate, money crises, swindles, wars and rumours of war, do not help to make one more cheerful. I start rehearsing Private Lives with a new company on Monday, and on July 30th we begin on the revival of Maugham's The Constant Wife, which I am to direct with Ingrid Bergman. We open at Brighton at the end of August, so perhaps I can drive you down one day to see it. How nice that you will be in London and Portmeirion is beautiful and should be restful. I knew it well in the thirties when I used to go there for weekends when we were acting in Liverpool. I am still struggling to get my royalties out of the Irene management. They owe me a big sum of money and the play is still doing enormous business. But the usual excuses - summer holidays, when in America all the agents and business people seem to go out of New York, makes it always difficult to get satisfactory results. Still, the sum is supposed to be agreed and I hope to see the cheque one day soon! Lots of good films to see here, but the plays are not very exciting. Only the Misanthrope at the National, and Alec Guinness in Habeas Corpus and the Shanghai Company of Acrobats. I hope there will be more for you to see at the end of the summer."
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