Two Typed Letters Signed, with Typed Note, to ['Luckhurst',] the Secretary, The Royal Society of Arts.

Children's writer, poet and illustrator. All three items one page, quarto. All in good condition, with minimal staining. All three docketed, and the two letters signed 'Dorothy AH. Mills. F.R.S.A.' LETTER ONE: She enjoyed a 'magnificent' item by F. T. Blanchard in the Society's magazine 'immensely': 'it contained what it seems to me we have lost in England, in the appreciation of Letters, - namely, spirituality and idealism, and the Divine plan in the life of the individual. English Letters have been too much influenced by the blight of Communism [...] I have recently written an historical novel myself, of the Thirteenth Century, and have been up against the immense problems, in fact, I was five years experimenting, but when I came to write it as it now stands, it took me only three months.' LETTER TWO: She enjoyed 'Dr. Stewart's charming lecture on "The Burmese Stage". It seems to me these plays (in their traditional form) are a direct survival of the ritual of old Nature worship'. Draws several parallels and ends 'I prefer these plays left untouched as far as possible by too many modern additions'. NOTE: She suggests 'Earl Baldwin. | Lord Baden Powell. | Lord Tweedsmuir.' 'for names for awards of the Albert Medal. 1938.' 'I am afraid I am not conversant with the names of great scientists, and I can't think of any great living artists worthy.'