BIB_ID
451165
Accession number
MA 4822.143
Creator
Gish, Lillian, 1893-1993, sender.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1961 October 20
Credit line
Purchased Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1994.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 7.1 x 9.5 cm + envelope
Notes
Date from postmark.
Written on personalized note card: Lillian Gish / 430 East 57th Street.
Stamped and postmarked envelope addressed: Mr. Edward Wagenknecht, / 233 Otis Street, / West Newton - 65- / Mass.
Written on personalized note card: Lillian Gish / 430 East 57th Street.
Stamped and postmarked envelope addressed: Mr. Edward Wagenknecht, / 233 Otis Street, / West Newton - 65- / Mass.
Provenance
Edward Wagenknecht.
Summary
Informing him that they have operated on "Dick B." (i.e. Richard Barthelmess) for cancer and removed his larynx, leaving him unable to speak or eat, and commenting that "the future looks dark"; mentioning that she has returned from Ohio where she and her sister Dorothy were visiting their cousins and that she is preparing to sell her apartment and prepare her other apartment at One West 72nd Street; noting that "Tony Richardson was to have directed P[assage] to India - now they look for some other English director as he cannot do it."
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