Letter from Lillian Gish, Chicago, Illinois, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1941 May 8 : typescript signed.

Wishing him "all good luck tomorrow night" and adding "I know you will uphold our cause nobly", giving her opinion that America is headed for civil war and "It does seem to me that whether one is British or American intrigue more men to die for their belief than slavery ever did."; hoping that he is "bombarding Washington with letters and telegrams of protest" (against American involvement in the war in Europe); remarking that she is not surprised that he has not heard back from D.W. Griffith as "he usually takes from two to five years to answer a letter. Just keep at him."; writing that "The thing about pictures in the west" is still unsettled, and she has heard that they "offered Serlin five thousand a week if he would let me leave this Chicago company."; thanking him for an article from the "American friend".