LOCK BOX 18
WEST POINT PLEASANT
NEW JERSEY

December 1st, 1921

Dear Agnes,

I sincerely hope that by the time this letter reaches you, you will have sent the two plays to Miss Lawson, else I'll really think - but, never mind what I may think - please send the plays.

You need not tell me that the whole thing is a bore, I fully realize that, but somehow the man who wrote the plays doesn't think so, and he is raising Cain for fear they'll miss being shown to a certain party who _may_ be interested in the staging of them... all of which I've told you, phoned you, written you, and today wired you... SEND THE BLOODY PLAYS!

And by the way, sweet and listless child, you never got, I suppose, the two (or maybe three) letters I wrote you on this momentous and other subjects, letters which, on your own mother's advice I addressed to the Vanderbilt Theater... did you?

One letter I also wrote to O'Neill,

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January 22nd, 1924.

Mrs. Eugene O'Neill
Brook Farm
Ridgefield, Conn.

Dear Agnes,

Many thanks for the letter and
checks safely received.

I am sending you a copy of "MASKS
AND MINSTRELS OF NEW GERMANY" by Percival Pol-
lard, which is evidently the book Gene wants.
The article in question, "Drama and Frank
Wedeking" forms Chapter Twelve.

With this book I also enclose "THE
CONFESSION OF A FOOL", a volume for which I've
been hunting high and low this last month, and
which I finally discovered this morning in a
shop in Brooklyn - of all God-forgotten spots!
It is the hardest of Strindberg's books to find,
and I had to pay $6.00 for the darn thing. I am
charging you $7.00 - please don't think I am
skinning you!

Please tell Gene I have lots of very

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interesting books to show him if he ever
will do me the high honour of a visit in
my little den. I am very busy compiling
the second Catalogue, and will send you the
earliest copy to chose what you like.

I have an idea of coming to pay
you a call this week end. May I? I'd love to
read your story, and see Cecil's drawings,
and have a chat with Gene and you...

Margery sends you both her love.
Her story "The Housewarming" came out in
Ladies' Home Journal - I am mailing you a
copy with the books - and to Margery's surprise
and delight elicited a number of very enthu-
siastic letters from stray readers all over
the country... It seems she's responsible for
half the tears that are being wept in these
United States this cold January.

Very soon we'll be launching into
publishing - nec plus ultra, and all that -
and that's one of the things I'd like to talk
over with yourself and Gene.

Love from your tottering old Uncle.

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Jan. 22nd, 1924.

Dear Gene,

Please, please, PLEASE, hunt up
ypur MS of Emperor Jones in story form -
I want to publish that in a small but very
cocky little edition pour lea amateurs des
belles choses. And I want to publish also
TOMORROW - the Seven Arts Story - with a
drawing by Pamela... and that soon. Unless
you fail me. I mean, unless you start
telling me again that the thing isn't worth
while and all that. We know better. And
of course there'll be money for you, not
Eldorado, for I propose publishing a very
limited edition in a small number, but money
anyhow... And if you have any arrangement
with Boni and Liveright, surely they won't mind
letting me do a very small thing like that.
They can have the sale of the regular edition
after, but I must have the kudos of bringing
out the first. See?

Drop me a line. Yours ever,