Letter from Lillian Gish, New York, New York, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1942 March 30 : typescript signed.

Lamenting that "Life with Father" is playing in Seattle without her, while she appears as Vinnie Day in another company; mentioning that her sister Dorothy fell acutely ill in South Dakota, and that she herself replaced her temporarily in the company (i.e. for the touring production of "Life with Father"); writing that her mother also fell seriously ill in January; remarking that she has found a play she likes "very much", but feels "that Guthrie McClintic is the man to produce it" and he is currently ill; mentioning her screen test for "Mrs. Wiggs" (in the 1942 production of "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch"), explaining that they wanted to pad her and line her face and "wouldn't guarantee to start me in the film as a younger woman, so I felt it would have been too expensive for me to come back done up like the man in Charley's Aunt", adding that she didn't agree with this view of the character and was therefore happy to be released from her contract; asking him about "the feeling around you about an invasion through Alaska?", and commenting on the public's anxiety over the war and general dissatisfaction in America.