Letter from Lillian Gish, New York, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1930 May 21 : typescript signed.

Thanking him for sending her excerpts from reviews for his book on Charles Dickens (i.e. "The man Charles Dickens, a Victorian portrait," 1929), adding "Surely they must please you, as they seem amazingly fine to me"; informing him that they will be performing Shakespeare in the fall, that "Jed Harris is in Europe now looking for a suitable Othello", that the production will be designed by Robert Edmond Jones, with Osgood Perkins as Iago, and that once the role of Othello is cast, she "will get seriously to work on Desdemona"; writing that is to be "released" from "Uncle Vanya" when the hot weather arrives in New York, that she wants to be in Europe during July and August, "principally for a rest and to visit Eugene O'Neill", and that she expects to be in New York in September when she hopes to see him there; informing him that she has no "suitable pictures of the character I am doing in Uncle Vanya", but should she find one of (herself as) Helena, she will send it along; expressing her pleasure at hearing of "Miss Clayton's success", but noting that she saw "All quiet on the Western front" yesterday, and "they have evidently cut her part out of the version they are using here", and going on to say that "It is a thrilling picture and follows the book very closely"; expressing some apprehension over D.W. Griffith's new film "Abraham Lincoln" as "Mr. Griffith seems to have withdrawn from all modern life and thought to such an extent, that I fear for his conception of such a well known character."