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Letter from Lillian Gish, Berlin, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1928 June 7 : typescript signed.

BIB_ID
450519
Accession number
MA 4822.25
Creator
Gish, Lillian, 1893-1993, sender.
Display Date
Berlin, 1928 June 7
Credit line
Purchased Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1994.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 28 x 22.2 cm envelope
Notes
Written on letterhead stationery and printed envelope from "United Artists Film-Verleih" in Berlin.
With stamped and postmarked envelope addressed: Mr. Edward Wagenknecht, / 5637 - 20th Avenue, / North East Seattle, / Washington, / U.S.A.
Provenance
Edward Wagenknecht.
Summary
Expressing her happiness at learning that he has found a publisher for his "first book"; writing that they have been in Berlin a little over a week, and has taken her mother to a "delightful sanatorium" where she and her nurse are both happy, adding that she feels her mother is going to regain her health in German; remarking on how much she likes Germany, and that "Prof. Reinhardt tells me that no artist from any field has ever, to his knowledge, had such a reception by press and people."