Thornton Wilder, Davis House, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, to Hildegarde Donaldson, New Haven, Connecticut 1924 Jan 17

Scope and content:

[writes enthusiastically about the acting career of her sister, mentions the novel L' Histoire Comiqueby Anatole France (1844-1924), literary editor of Le Temps, about the "wings of the Second Theatre," and promises next year to share with her some of his favorite readings, "certain pages where Paul Valery explains why literature so often flourishes about courts and aristocracies (not after all a hard thing to explain) instead of about the sweet noble lives of republics and self-governing villages." Thornton also writes out a few bars of music and refers to hearing [Fritz ?] Kreisler (1875-1962) play several musical pieces and critcizes his handling of the last movements]

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ALS; four pages, with envelope

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