Letter from Lillian Gish, Chicago, Illinois, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1940 June 21 : typescript signed.

Writing that she has not seen "One million B.C." as it hasn't opened yet in Chicago, "but when it does believe me I will be there"; mentioning that she has heard that D.W. Griffith would not allow his name to be publicly associated with the picture, so she isn't sure it is to his taste, and adding that he raved about "Of mice and men" and that "If you have seen it I think you will agree with me that his opinions are very close to our own."; stating that she has been told that "any move" on her part would be "so much dynamite for their play", that there may be "other ways and means that will hurt no one and might be just as effective", but at present her hands are tied "in public at least."; concluding that it is good that he is "in the far West and unable to realize the extreme hysteria of the East" and that her instinct "tells me it will be all over before the leaves turn in the Fall."