Methuen & Co
29th May 1934
Dear Beatrix
I don't suppose you remember me but I came twice to Bourne
end when you were a united family and your father was for many years a
cherished (if sometimes feared) colleague of mine on Punch. I write now, as
your publisher as well as admirer, to ask if you will give Mrs. Nicholls, my
friend and secretary, every opportunity to prepare an article about you for
good housekeeping which the editor has promised to print. It should do us all
good.
am your sincerely.
(look up good housekeeping for the rest of the year at the
BL!)
E V Lucas
RNL/6/4/6
The new statesman 4 May 1957
the entertainer
Sir - in his perceptive and sympathetic notice of Mr John Osborne's new play, The entertainer,
Mr T.C. Worsley seems to me to make one grievous error of judgement and criticism
when he says: Granddad, in spite of all the resources of the resources Mr
George Relph, is, frankly, a purely conventional character, who easily, and indeed
very early, becomes a bore. the long opening scene between him and the daughter
is so much waste.
I know I am not alone in thinking this performance not
merely resourceful, but a stupendous joy to watch and listen to. a complete
personality, a new old friend, a bore only to his relatives, was given to us in
those too few minutes. He sharpened expectancy and set the mood an d meaning
for all that was to follow.
Mr Worsley the continues, The necessary information in it
could be conveyed by any competent working dramatists in a page of dialogue. it
is precisely because competent working dramatists have been conveying necessary
information that page of dialogue...
(see the rest at the BL)
