Letter from Lillian Gish, New York, New York, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1949 March 21 : typescript signed.

Thanking him belatedly for the "Christmas books"; informing him that she has done another show for television entitled "Outward bound", and that she will be auctioning off "all the things I have kept in storage for ten years", although her "Wigs and costumes go to the New York Museum"; writing that her sister Dorothy is suffering from a "spring attack of stomach ulcers" but is getting better, and that if they are well they hope to sail for Europe around the end of April; hoping that Dorothy Wagenknecht has suffered no lasting effects from her automobile accident; expressing admiration for Jane Wyman's performance in "Johnny Belinda" and going on to express her distaste for "Death of a salesman": "It left me absolutely unmoved, since I have never met people, thank heaven's, such as Arthur Miller writes about"; mentioning that she will pass along his letter to Elizabeth Ross and urging him not to give up on his idea for a book about the history of the movies.