BIB_ID
450709
Accession number
MA 4822.83
Creator
Gish, Lillian, 1893-1993, sender.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1947 September 27
Credit line
Purchased Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1994.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.1 x 13.6 cm
Notes
Typed on letterhead stationery from the Hotel Elysée in New York City.
Provenance
Edward Wagenknecht.
Summary
Congratulating him on the birth of his son, Walter Chappell Wagenknecht; writing that her sister Dorothy has been ill with stomach ulcers ("They call it 'Roosevelt Disease' in these parts, at least so the taxi drivers inform me"), informing him that she has written Glenn Hughes about his play "Mrs. Carlyle", and going on to say that "I should love to go out there and try it out for him but at the moment my plans point towards Rodney Ackland's version of 'Crime & Punishment here this winter and a picture in England in the Spring", and adding that she has been asked to do (Noel Coward's) "The Marquise" in the west; expressing her pleasure at learning that he will be moving to Boston.
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