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Percy Wallace MacKaye Collection, Accession 7431-a, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Deposit [17 December 1963] 24 March 1965
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[Asks Gilder to write something for The Century on MacKaye's play Shappho and Phaon starring Julia Marlowe and E. H. Sothern ; mentions color sketches of the actors made by Barry Faulkner ; MacKaye mentions that he is working on another play, "Jeanne d'Arc", scheduled for October; mentions that Sappho and Phaon is scheduled to open December 10, 1906 in Chicago , and that MacMillan will publish the play; mentions William Vaughn Moody . ]
[Letter discusses a lunch appointment with Eaton, drama critic for The [New York] Morning Sun . ]
[Discusses the stage and the technical aspects of the marionette performance of Pageant and Masque of St. Louis given in May. States that accounts of the production can be found in July or August World's Work by Prof. George Pierce Baker , in the August Review of Reviews by Arthur Farwell , and the Sept. Current Literature . Estimates that 1/2 million people saw the performances.]
[The note was enclosed with an autographed photo (the photo is not in this collection). Says the plays he likes best are: A Garland to Sylvia , This Fine Pretty World , and The Scarecrow . ]
[Offers sympathy to Holt on a great loss.]
[Discusses the proof of a book by Ernest Harold Baynes and requests extra copies for Baynes' widow and friends.]
[Encloses a book by Dartmouth Press which contains Eaton's greeting at MacKaye's 50th birthday celebration. At the invitation of Hamilton Holt he is spending a few weeks at Rollins College to meet with students interested in poetry.]
[Thanks Ranck for the birthday greeting and wishes his new play success. Mentions that he is lecturing in Florida . Written on a picture post card with a scene of a highway through orange groves near Winter Park, Florida . ]
[Sends Eaton a copy of Wakefield for review in a New York newspaper. Extends an invitation to Eaton to attend the Washington, D. C. premiere on Feb. 21 to which the President, Cabinet, Supreme Court, Ambassadors, and Congress have been invited.]
[Mentions meeting Untermeyer at a National Institute of Arts and Letters meeting; MacKaye sends him four books by MacKaye that were published in Europe: The Far Familiar ; In Another Land ; Poesia Religio ; My Lady Dear, Arise ; discusses publication in pre-World War II and inter-World War II Europe . ]
[Discusses an article MacKaye has agreed to write about Santa Claus.]
[Note: Correspondent is identified as (William) Maxwell because he was editor of The New Yorker , and Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature lists several articles by Percy Wallace MacKaye published in The New Yorker . However, an article about Santa is not listed.]