Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Letter from Mary Pickford, Hollywood, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1961 November 6 : typescript signed.

BIB_ID
458889
Accession number
MA 4823.26
Creator
Pickford, Mary, 1892-1979, sender.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1994.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 24.1 x 16.5 cm
Notes
Written on personalized letterhead stationery with blue border.
Written to: Mr. Edward Wagenknecht / 233 Otis Street / West Newton 65, Massachusetts.
Provenance
Edward Wagenknecht.
Summary
Responding with great delight and enthusiasm for the chapter concerning herself and written by Wagenknecht for his upcoming book "Movies in the age of innocence"; referring to the chapter as "amazingly accurate", with only a minor error which she will go into later, and going on to state "Of the many histories of the motion picture industry, I have none as meticulously correct as indicated by the chapter you sent me"; discussing plans under way to establish a "permanent Motion Picture and Television Museum ... with a location near the Hollywood Bowl", to which she is contributing "many of my historical possessions" and to which she is granting permission for all of her films to be copied to acetate and shown at the museum; enclosing a recent picture of herself "taken and published by the local newspapers when I appeared in Court to testify in a radio station suit."