Correspondence : with Margaret Naumburg, 1937-1941.

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Correspondence : with Margaret Naumburg, 1937-1941.

Letters from Gassner, of the Play Department, one of which is a copy of a letter addressed to Wood.

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Wood, Audrey, 1905-

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