FLEMING IAN Autograph Letter Signed My Dear Enid

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FLEMING, IAN. Autograph Letter Signed "My Dear Enid" to author and playwright Enid Bagnold, with Bagnold's Typed Letter, unsigned, to which Fleming replies. 1 1/2 pages, 8vo, written on recto and verso of a single sheet, on "Goldeneye, Oracabessa" stationery. Oracabessa, Jamaica, 15 February [1963]

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Bagnold, best known for the 1935 story National Velvet which was filmed in 1944 with Elizabeth Taylor, wrote to Fleming from her room at the Hyde Park Hotel in Knightsbridge, London, about her enjoyment of his introduction to the reprint of Hugh Edwards's book of nautical adventure, "All Night at Mr. Stanyhurst's." Fleming writes her that the tale always brings him to tears and, in closing, that he "must return to writing about James Bond. He is now Bondo-san and is having high-jinks in Japan!"