Letter from Lillian Gish, New York, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1938 July 1 : typescript signed.

Acknowledging receipt of a photograph of Wagenknecht's son and declaring him to be a "beautiful child"; informing him that D.W. Griffith is in Louisville, Kentucky and that she has heard he is "not well" and considering going to Florida for the winter, "which is disappointing news to me as I wanted him to see "The Star-Wagon" and review my performance afterwards with me"; responding to his proposal to write a book about Griffith, and stating that he would need to give up everything else to attend on his subject and "catch him when he was in the mood to relate his interesting experiences"; adding that she thinks a book about him "ought to be more valuable as time goes on and the origin of pictures becomes more remote, since he is responsible for whatever they are today", writing that she read the article about him in Scribners and found it interesting though "full of inaccuracies", suggesting he contact Griffith, and noting that they met his wife and "liked her very much indeed. I think it will prove a successful marriage if his first wife will only stop deviling him."; mentioning meeting "Miss Rosenstein"and his proposal to undertake a history of the novel, and confirming that she misses their deceased fried Albert (Bigelow) Paine, although she states that he was such an "unhappy soul" that she would not "wish him back again"; writing that "The Star-Wagon" is doing well and asking if he plans to ever come East again.