According to Gene Deitch , a director of animation and friend of E. B. White , Mrs. White wrote the following words in a 1977 letter : `` We have never ceased to regret that your version of `` Charlotte 's Web '' never got made .
According to Gene Deitch , a director of animation and friend of E. B. White , the author 's wife wrote the following words in a 1977 letter : `` We have never ceased to regret that your version of `` Charlotte 's Web '' never got made .