21、February 25,1951

                      14 East 94th St.
                      February 25, 1951

Dear Cecily—
    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.
    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 kills 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
105 (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.
    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.

                                Best—
                                helene

注释：
keep your fingers crossed 祝我好运