February 25, 1951

14 East 95th St.

Yorkshire Pudding out of this world, we have nothing like it, I had to describe it to somebody as a high, curved, smooth, empty waffle.

Dear Cecily,

New York City

Please don't worry about what the food parcels cost, I don't know whether Overseas Asso. is non-profit or duty-free or what, but they are monstrous cheap, that whole Christmas parcel cost less than my turkey. They do have a few rich parcels with things like standing rib-roasts and legs of lamb, but even those are so cheap compared with what they cost in the butcher shops that it kilIs me not to be able to send them. I have such a time with the catalogue, I spread it out on the rug and debate the relative merits of Parcel 05 (includes-one-dozen-eggs-and a-tin-of-sweet-biscuits) and Parcel 217B (two-dozen-eggs-and NO-sweet-biscuits), I hate the one -- dozen egg parcels, what is two eggs for anybody to take home? But Brian says the powdered ones taste like glue. So it's a problem.

Helene

A producer who likes my plays (but not enough to produce them) just phoned. He's producing a TV series, do I want to write for television? "Two bills," he said carelessly, which it turned out means $200. And me a $40-a-week script-reader! I go down to see him tomorrow, keep your fingers crossed.