Letter from Lillian Gish, Victoria, British Columbia, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1942 August 4 : typescript signed.

Regretting that he thought the food they had at "Blanc's" was bad, as she felt the occasion was "one of the happiest dinners I have ever had"; writing that she went to Vancouver for the Caledonian games and that she "didn't like the city nearly as well as Victoria as it was too large", that she is enjoying the "beautiful climate and scenery", and remarking that her work (on the film "Commandos strike at dawn") is really a vacation and "As I have so little in the picture, all the responsibility and worry of it is in other hands."; mentioning that she is going to read War and peace and asking if he has re-read it lately, and observing that the novel has taken on a "peculiar significance" at the present moment; stating that she is in the "charming and talented hands" of director John Farrow, "which makes me sorry at times that I haven't more to do"; urging Wegenknecht to read Farrow's book "Damien, the leper," remarking that she is sure Wegenknecht and Farrow have much in common, and that Farrow "is married to the beautiful Maureen O'Sullivan, who is up here with their three year old boy"; noting that she hasn't "seen a movie magazine in twelve years" and promising "to try and avoid them for your sake."