http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/157684401

Seattle, Los Angeles, Victoria (British Columbia), Florence, New York, Windsor (Vermont), West Brooksville (Maine), Totnes (Devon), to Edward Wagenknecht

Discussing productions of Iphigenia (1934) and Eastward in Eden (1947), which she directed; declining to write a memoir about the Chicago Little Theater; mentioning the actresses Beatrice Straight, Margaret Rawlings, and Dorothy Tutin; thanking him for sending various books; commenting on his work on Longfellow; saying she found Claire Bloom "vocally monotonous and not yet of genuine tragic stature" in Romeo and Juliet (ca. 1954); reporting Nellie C. Cornish's death and asking him to rework her autobiographical account of the Cornish School; explaining why she moved from the Barbizon Plaza to the Hotel Laurelton (later the Laurelton-Wellington Hotel); complimenting Michael Whitney Straight's novel Carrington (1960); remembering hearing Paul Robeson in Othello; thanking him for dedicating his book on Chicago to her; noting that she is sorting her papers and Maurice Browne's for the theater collection at the University of Michigan; regretting Geraldine Farrar's death; appreciating his Merely Players (1966); regretting Nixon's election in 1968; reporting Dorothy Elmhirst's death. Many signed "Nellie Van."

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