BIB_ID
411936
Accession number
MA 9518.19
Creator
Gielgud, John, 1904-2000.
Display Date
[1979] July 20.
Credit line
Bequest of Mrs. John C. Hughes, 1980.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 29.9 x 21.1 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with stamp and postmark to "Mrs. John Hughes / Lombardy Hotel / E. 56th Street and Park Avenue / New york City / U.S.A."
Year of writing from postmark.
Written on stationery printed "South Pavilion / Wotton House / Wotton Underwood / Berkshire." Gielgud has crossed through Berkshire and written Aylesbury Bucks."
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.
Year of writing from postmark.
Written on stationery printed "South Pavilion / Wotton House / Wotton Underwood / Berkshire." Gielgud has crossed through Berkshire and written Aylesbury Bucks."
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
Thanking her for the wine and explaining why he is unable to accept an invitation from the Pujols for a meal at the Connaught; saying "I am so disappointed to refuse, but unfortunately I am rehearsing a rather stupid play for television - an Agatha Christie thriller - and cannot get away from Waterloo. Whenever we work all day I get too tired to go out in the evening after a long rehearsal and then have to get all this way back. I do hope they will understand. I'm so glad the cassette was delivered to you safely and that you enjoyed hearing it. I have made a new 'Ages of Man' recording for Caedmon and that will soon be published in New York. I will ask them to send you a copy at once. I have been filming in Warsaw and Libya. If you please - saw the Pope celebrating the great Mass in Victory Square - such luck. The NY Times correspondent gave me his window in the hotel opposite for the whole afternoon - 250,000 people standing in blazing sunshine during the 3 1/2 hour service, applauding and bursting into spontaneous singing. So moving and magnificent."
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