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Dear Sally-Beth: I'm hoping to write up a short piece for _Early Theatre_ about the Inns of Court Masque at Hart House. Helen and I both loved the scenes, and I'm wondering if your designer might be willing to share some images with us and allow us to reproduce one or two of them for the article. I thought it would be fun to include one image that was fairly classical, i.e. the kind of thing one might see among Inigo Jones' drawings, together with the backdrop for the country fair antimasque. I think this would help showcase what was so innovative and fun about the way your designer did things. I'd also love to include more information about the costumes. I saw in the lobby outside the theatre that you were displaying a poster with sample costume designs in process, with an explanation of how the designer was making choices based on Jones's costume drawings, and then annotating them much the way Jones himself did this. Again, this kind of fun, self-reflexiveness about your production is one of the things I'd like to highlight in my piece. Do you think there is any way I could reproduce the poster in the journal, perhaps through a digital photo someone could send me of it? Do you have any other suggestions for images I might use for the piece? Finally, when I write up the bit about the music, I'd like to double check my facts with your daughter. She kindly spoke with me about her process of selecting and compiling music and told me that I should email you if I needed to be in contact with her again. She said you would forward me her email. Alternatively, I can write my questions to you, and have you forward them to her... Thanks so much. Melinda Melinda Gough Managing and Associate Editor, Early Theatre Associate Professor English and Cultural Studies/Women's Studies McMaster University 1280 Main St. W. Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4L9 Canada Phone: (905) 525-9140, ext. 23716 Fax: (905) 777-8316