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[Harley Granville Barker]
Cable and Radio Address Savoyplaza New York Telephone Volunteer 5-2600
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The Savoy Plaza Fifth Avenue 58th and 59th Streets New York
April 29. 1936
My dear Tweedsmuir - if I may add this more personal word to the thanks due to Their Excellencies and sent through Mackenzie.
What a good time you gave us! But something better than that. For I felt myself made a temporary member of your happy and able official family - Under-Secretary for the Drama or the like - and very proud to be. If anything extrordinary is to come of this 'movement' (who can say? but really there are auspicious omens) what luck that, at this juncture, you should be there to guide it, who not only care for such things - but have acquired practical wisdom
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about them! Heaven knows - and to my sorrow I've proved - that the combination is a rare one. And just at this juncture it is that contribution which will count (Literature, drama, and things of the intellect in general - it's not for me to say so: but you won't mind - I see well enough what your five years, falling just now, may mean to them; and, living amid the miseries and fears of Europe, one is happy to see it)
Apropos the last talk you gave me, they brought up at the Brugères the question of Jacques Copeau as a possible future 'adjudicator'. If you come to favour a Frenchman you could, I think, hardly do better. He began as a critic (was one of the little group that funded the N.R.F) and is still a very good one; speaks English fairly easily; a scholar - has edited Moliere, and all that; imposes himself. And if ever you wanted him non-committally sounded, I am in occasional touch with him in Paris.
Well, thank you again. I shall not
