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Add MS 89670/1
- Record Id:
- 040-004406637
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004395340
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100176394149.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89670/1
- Title:
- Correspondence of Ann and Ian Fleming I
- Scope & Content:
- Also contains: one letter from William Plomer, a friend of Ian's and a reader at Jonathan Cape, Ian's publisher, to Ann, 4 Apr 1957, in which Plomer expresses his expectation that From Russia, With Love would do better than Ian's previous books and discusses Ian's broad fanbase; two letters from Ann to Peter Quennell, writer, critic, and friend of the Flemings, 30 Dec [1960] and 5 Mar [1964], the former describing a new year's eve spent in Switzerland and the latter going into some detail about a violent altercation between Ann and a drunken Ian; a letter from an unidentified correspondent, writing from The Ford Foundation, New York, to Ann, Aug 1961, discussing mutual friends and acquaintances; and an incomplete letter from Ann to Diana [Cooper], [after 18 Jan 1963], discussing Diana's life since the death of her husband, Duff (Ann mistakenly writes 'Hugh') in 1954, the death of Hugh Gaitskell, Ann's feelings for him, and expressing her sadness for Dora [Gaitskell] and her daughters.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-004395340
040-004406637 - Is part of:
- Add MS 89670 : Correspondence of Ann and Ian Fleming
Add MS 89670/1 : Correspondence of Ann and Ian Fleming I - Hierarchy:
- 032-004395340[0001]/040-004406637
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89670
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 folder (176 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1946
- End Date:
- 1969
- Date Range:
- 1946-1960s
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Arrangement:
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A small number of letters are dated but most are not. Folios 1-135 are dated or dateable (using internal evidence); any undated letters in this sequence which appear in Mark Amory's The Letters of Ann Fleming are in the order given therein. Some letters contain pencil annotations, giving possible dates, added by previous owners. Where these do not agree with Amory's dating, the latter has been followed. Further research into internal evidence and Andrew Lycett's Ian Fleming may enable more accurate dating of the remaining letters.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)