Creator of James Bond. TLS, one page, 8 x 10, Kemsley House letterhead, September 28, 1959. Letter to Sir Gerald Kelly. In full, “How very kind of you to have written me such a charming letter. ‘A Twist of Sand’ isn't really all that good but at least Jenkins has a bash and I wanted to encourage him to keep going. We haven't enough thriller writers these days. Everyone's too grand and too serious and the old business of writing books that people can read has gone out of fashion. Willie Maugham has always been very kind about my opuscula. How grateful one is to him for having given one so much pleasure over so many years! My next book The Rough With the Smooth, a collection of five long short stories (good writers call them novellae!), will be out with the daffodils next Spring. It really was kind of you to have written. I suppose you did so because you yourself must have received so many appreciative letters throughout your splendid life.” In fine condition, with bisecting mailing folds and some light wrinkling. COA John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and R&R COA.
