MY DEAR LADY GREGORY--Of recent years you have done all that is anxious and laborious in the supervision of the Abbey Theatre and left me free to follow my own thoughts. It is therefore right that I address to you this letter, wherein I shall explain, half for your ears, half for other ears, certain thoughts that have made me believe that the Abbey Theatre can never do all we had hoped. We set out to make a ‘People’s Theatre,’ and in that we have succeeded. But I did not know until very lately that there are certain things, dear to both our hearts, which no ‘People’s Theatre’ can accomplish.