Letter from Lillian Gish, New York, New York, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1957 December 5 : typescript signed.

Thanking him for his review (of Richard Griffith's book The movies?) for the Chicago Tribune; noting that Richard Griffith was "quite upset about Dorothy" and told her that the publisher had deleted some pages without telling him; adding "However, he said that Max Linder was in. I told him that he was regarded on the continent of Europe as much more important than Chaplin."; mentioning that Griffith's said he had talked to Mrs. (Edith Monroe) Moe about Wagenknecht's project and was "hopeful that Guggenheims would be generous enough to let you go ahead"; writing that she would like his extra unbound copy or Arthur Knight's book and mentioning that Dick (Griffith) said that they has sold 10,000 copies and were going into the second edition; remarking that she may take his advice concerning an offer requiring her to work in the Congo (i.e. for the film "The nun's story"), as "If the tropics are strong enough to kill Conrad and Roosevelts what chance would I have?"