Letter from Lillian Gish, New York, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1932 March 18 : typescript signed.

Apologizing for not having written him, "but this bad winter has been so far reaching", and explaining that she has "spent most of it reading bad manuscripts, trying to support my self-esteem by refusing everything that came my way because they seemed, for want of a better word, cheap or unimportant to me", remarking upon how fortunate he is, in contrast, to be a writer "with the ultimate desire of pleasing your own self, and with no interference whatsoever"; informing him the "Paine book" (i.e. Alfred Bigelow Paine's "Life and Lillian Gish") is in the hands of the publisher Macmillan, and she is consequently "learning a great deal about the actual facts of publishing", including type, paper, bindings, blurbs, and the reproduction of photographs; mentioning that she attended a luncheon given by Theodore Dreiser for Gerhart Hauptmann; discussing possible plans to take "Uncle Vanya" to London, with Ruth Gordon as Sonya, Charles Laughton as the Professor and Vanya, "and other English actors to make it an all-star cast ... If all goes well, we shall sail next week", adding "That and the idea of doing Galsworth's Silver Box here are the only things I have in mind for the immediate future", remarking that London "seems more advisable" as it has "over forty theatres ... while New York cannot really boast of twenty.", and concluding "What strange times we are living in!"