Letter from Mary Pickford, Hollywood, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1955 March 21 : typescript signed.

Acknowledging that she has been remiss in not answering his letters, and explaining that her life is especially hectic owing to the recent illness of her secretary and her lawsuit with Sam Goldwyn, "which has been pending for five and a half years," and which goes to trial the next day; writing that she is glad that he liked the series of articles containing her serialized autobiography which appeared in McCalls and thanking him for pointing out two errors which will be corrected in the book which appears on May 19th (under the title "Sunshine and Shadow"); admitting that she is not satisfied with it, and now believes that it was a mistake to write an autobiography rather than allow a biography to be written, as "Autobiographies should be written and put away to be published after one is gone for there is so much one can not tell."; mentioning that he saw alot of Lillian Gish while she was in Hollywood working on her two pictures, although she has herself been busy with "continual conferences with with attorneys, tax counsels and financial advisors," as there exists a possibility that she will need to take over the studio (i.e. United Artists Studio); mentioning her two adopted children, Ronnie, who is with the Marines in Korea, and Roxanne, who "is home and fairly towers over me. She is only 12 but could easily pass for 16."