TLS signed “Tennessee,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 5.25 x 6.5, Royal Orleans Hotel letterhead, August 7, 1970. Williams writes to Audrey. In part: “Frank Fontis, my gardener, read me the following cablegram … ‘Darling Tenn, marvelous news. Lindsay Anderson and Paul Scofield both very interested in play. They want to hold scripts and are meeting in London next week….’ I think it is a promising new development and we should hold our American horses until Scofield and Anderson have met and come to some conclusion….” After detailing his search for a lost “agreement,” he continues: “Hayes … also asked me to send him one-act plays and I’m getting a couple typed up to submit to him…. I carry a cholesterol diet list to all restaurants now and an almost fanatical in my adherence to it….” After signing, Williams adds a handwritten postscript: “Will be in Key West till end of August.” Williams has also crossed out a partial paragraph on the first page and has made a few handwritten corrections throughout. In fine condition. R&R COA.
