Letter from Lillian Gish, New York, New York, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1961 November 24 : typescript signed.

Informing him that Richard Barthelmess has returned home after his fourth operation (for throat cancer) and commenting "He and his wife are so brave, they put all our small worried to shame."; lamenting the death of Guthrie McClintic from cancer and mentioning that she has gone to five funerals in two weeks; writing that she is glad that Mary (Pickford) liked the chapter he wrote about her (i.e. for his book The movies in the age of innocence), remarking that she has not looked at her own book for over a year and that it is impossible to concentrate on it as long as she lives in New York, and stating that she is sure his book on the history of film will prove to be "the most intelligent and accurate of all books written on the subject."; writing that Dick Griffith is back from Europe but that when she tried to reach him at the museum, he was home ill; mentioning that the apartment she acquired at West 72nd Street proved to be too small and she "must sell it before I do anything else."; going on to write that "'Passage to India' is to be done by an all-English cast" and remarking that she thinks this a "wise" choice and that she is glad as she had lost interest in appearing in it; adding that she is going to see "A Man for All Seasons" that evening, that most of the plays that year are guaranteed to keep her at home, and that she saw Arthur Hopkin's "Double Life", which she praises, concluding "Time has been good to it."