Letter from Lillian Gish, Hollywood, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1929 December 13 : typescript signed.

Apologizing for not having written sooner, informing him that she has just finished making her first talking picture, "The swan" (released as "One romantic night"), and commenting on the experience: "The talkies are most interesting to make, much more so to me than the silent films; although I must confess that as yet the results of the latter please me more than the results of the talkies - with the possible exception of 'Disraeli'", adding that the quality and success of "Disraeli" "gives high hope for the future of the medium", and concluding "surely the days of silent pictures are definitely over."; stating that she has not yet seen the "The swan", but that it should be "rather light and charming entertainment", and will be her last effort until she finds an "important story"; asking him to send her his biography of Geraldine Farrar to her address in New York; inquiring in a postscript if he has seen the entry she has written for the new Encyclopedia Britannica, adding that the check for it came the other day, and that she is so pleased she anticipates framing it; asking him if "The white sister" seemed old fashioned, and and what he thought of "Enoch Arden" "after all these years"; returning his copy of "the Willa Cather review."