Letter

  • Reference
    • GB 133 DON/62
  • Dates of Creation
    • 25 Aug 1933
  • Physical Description
    • 9 sheets

Scope and Content

Letter from RD to his parents and brother John. Topics covered include: the success and popularity of the play [A sleeping clergyman], in Birmingham; the comparatively poor audiences at the production of When ladies meet, which is also playing in Birmingham [RD left this production earlier in the year]; his great admiration for A sleeping clergyman, which he first read on a Glasgow doorstep earlier in the year; plans for the play to visit Glasgow and Edinburgh before opening in London; Nanny [Nanette Osborne], who is going to London to help Ella with the baby; RD's hopes of buying a house in the heart of Mayfair; praise from the trade papers for [RD's fourth film The private life of] Henry the Eighth; and the possibility of RD appearing with Douglas Fairbanks Jr and Elizabeth Bergner in Korda's film Catherine of Russia.

Dated at: Birmingham. Holograph.