?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
TAX TROUBLES: "THE INLAND REVENUE AUTHORITIES CANNOT BE ACTUATED BY SYMPATHY" CHANDLER, RAYMOND. Typed Letter Signed, to author Michael Gilbert, explaining that the information Chandler sent previously concerning a tax liability problem was freely given to Chandler by the British Information Services office in New York, remarking that that office cannot advise about the tax problem, opining that [accountant A.J.] Clissold might find a way for Chandler to avoid the tax, and, in a postscript, reporting that he just received a letter from [his English accounting firm where Clissold is employed] Shipley, Blackburn, Sutton & Co. indicating that the tax cannot be avoided because the authorities are unmoved by emotional appeals. 1 page, 4to, personal stationery, pale blue paper; faint marginal discoloration from prior matting, two punch holes in left margin, horizontal fold, remnants of prior hinging at upper edge verso; matted with an 11x14-inch window card showing a scene from the 1946 film The Blue Dahlia and framed. La Jolla, 3 June 1957
"The British Information Services in New York have been very friendly to me, and they have sent me a number of government publications which they are entitled to send to people enquiring from them. It is not the personal opinion of anyone in the British Information Services which gives the authority for what I have sent . . . . The British Information Services do not themselves feel entitled to express an opinion on these subjects, and they are not in any way to blame for any discrepancy between their and your . . . view of law. . . ."
