| Content Description | Addresses him as 'Dear Mr Percy'; has received reviews of his [Percy's] production of 'The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd' [produced 12, 13, 19 Dec 1926 at the Kingsway Theatre, London] and wishes he could have been there; it is a 'bore that the audience and the critics didn't like it' as they seemed 'to have done the thing so well'; accepts that 'plainly' it was his fault but suggests that the audiences and critics believe themselves perfect when they may be 'inefficient' listeners.
Confesses that it is years since he read the play and he wrote it when he was 'raw'; they may be right in suggesting that 'the last act is too much taken up with washing the dead, instead of getting on a bit with life'; asks that Percy and Miss [Marda] Vanne tell him what they think and he will 're-model the end' if the play is to be 'done again'; sends thanks to Percy, Miss Vanne, Colin Keith-Johnston and 'the others who did what they could'; signed 'D.H. Lawrence'; adds some criticism of the play from a friend of Lawrence's [Rolf Gardiner]. |