A letter from director of the Kapsukas State Theatre to Mykolaitis-Putinas, with the writer's answer, in 1960. The head of the theatre asked Mykolaitis-Putinas if he could dramatise his novel 'In the Shadow of the Altars'. The writer refused to give his permission. He wrote openly in his answer that in the process of its dramatisation, the novel might be distorted and deformed according to the ideological norms and official requirements.