Handwritten letter from Lloyd Mason-Smith

Berkeley, California
October 30, 1938
Dear Mr. Wells:
I have listened to your series of plays for many
months and wish to thank you for the hours of
sheer pleasure it gave me. You are to be con-
gratulated on such excellent work, not only in
the acting but also in the adaptations in the first
person, making them so real.
I have a request to make of you. Could I in
any way procure one of your radio scripts?
I am very much interested in script-writing and would
like to get a model to study. I was especially im-
pressed with your rendition this Sunday of
H. G. Wells' "War of the Worlds". Is there any way
I could obtain a copy of that radio radio-script?
There is one novel which has left a longing
impression upon me. That is Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle's "Maricot Deep", a relatively little-known
novel of fantasism by that author. I believe it
is adaptable to your program. Do you agree, or
not? If you think it a worthwhile try, I'd
like to try to write an adaptation of it, and
perhaps compare it with yours if you choose
to give it by the Mercury Theatre. Or perhaps
you might condescend to criticize it for me?
California