Autograph Letter signed, to E. Martin Browne.

Bookseller Notes

Craig writes to theatre director E. Martin Browne, best known for his work with T.S. Eliot, from the house of Mme Bricard in Corbeil the latter being Mizza (or Mitzah) Bricard, muse of Christian Dior. Craig's letter is preliminary in nature arranging for Browne to visit for 'country air & a talk over theatre things [...] & lunch here with me'; he begins by clarifying that 'I am not in Paris but I am only about hour from Paris in an old garden & an old house' where he has 'come to rest' following a six-year spell in the capital, and is now 'reviving'. He digresses at one point regarding the health of 'Mrs Leeper' (this presumably Janet Leeper, author of books on ballet, theatre, and on Craig himself), but otherwise concentrates on fixing arrangements including recommending a train from Paris ('BAD TRAIN but the best'), from which 'I would meet you in automobile. Voila!'An interesting letter between two of the major British theatre directors of the first half of the twentieth-century.