STATION, COLDERS GREEN.
TEL. FINCHLEY 2326.

9. ARCADE HOUSE,
TEMPLE FORTUNE,

N. W. 4.

1st December, 1920.

My dear Eugene O'Neill:

I hope the play will be done
over here—at allevents, it must be published, and I
must I shall soon be told by Sidgwick and Jackson
that they are publishing it.

Will you let me have a few
biographical facts about yourself for prefatory
purposes. If anyone has written an account of you
and your work, I'd like to see the article.

A play of mine is to be done
over here soon after Xmas and will, I hope, be done
early next year in New York. I propose, when I next
visit America, to go to Provincetown and see you. It
seems a damned disgusting thing that I did not meet
you when I was in New York this year.

I am terribly unhappy about
Ireland. I hate killing which is murder to me, whether
it be done for Ireland or for Imperialism, and I feel
that we in Ireland, however exalted our motives may be,
are raising an evil spirit in our people. It is easier
to teach men to commit murder than it is to teach them
to cease murdering. However, the politicians having
brought the world to misery must somehow contrive to
lighten our hearts for us. In the meantime, the best
that you and I can do is to go on with our work.

My deep regards to you,