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[Postmark 11 October 1882] Halifax, Nova Scotia

My dear Steele, Mary Anderson has written to me, accepting you as director and supreme autocrat (I think that over the ‘supers’ you should have the power of life and death: we will have no serious dramatic art until we hang a super), offering to take Booth’s Theatre for October, and to get a good young actor for the hero, and indeed she seems most willing to do everything requisite for our success. She is simple and nice, and the Griffin must have his claws clipped.

I will see of course that in our contract you shall be named as the man under whose direction the play shall walk the stage. I will be back in a fortnight; and we will settle matters about The Duchess and about Vera. Any and all of your suggestions will be most valuable. I am glad you like it and if we can get Miss Mather it will be a great thing.

Pray go over the play carefully, and note on the blank interleaf your changes, so that over the walnuts and the wine at some little Brunswick dinner we may settle everything.

I long to get back to real literary work, for though my audiences are really most appreciative 1 cannot write while flying from one railway to another and from the cast-iron stove of one hotel to its twin horror in the next.

I will be at the Vendome Hotel, Boston, on Sunday next. Send me a line there to say how things are going with you.

Remember me to Frank Pierrson, and believe me, very truly yours

OSCAR WILDE