TLS signed “Louis,” two pages, 8.5 x 11, April 3, 1968. Lamour writes from Los Angeles to Bill. In part: “By way of typewriter I am at present just across the Rio Bavispe and climbing into the Sierra Madre, up through scattered oak and into the pines by a switch-back trail the Apaches used to follow…. I have four very rough characters going into tht country after a child kidnapped by the Apaches. SHALAKO is getting all sorts of attention for various reasons. Euan Lloyd put the deal together, starting with a free option I gave him, and it was unique in motion picture history. The NYTimes financial section gave it picture and a long story that carried over to another page, relating the details of the financing. He sold his car, mortgaged his home, sold his wife’s mink coat and finally put the deal together with financing from all over the world…. We went to dinner at the Franklins the other night, and he had the ethnological society there, or that part of it connected with UCLA, including two Negroes from Senegal who are over here doing some work…. I want to get a could [sic] metal detector. Kathy almost got me one for my birthday this year, but did not know which to get. I know some are much better than others, but I’d like to find something that will detect metal several feet down … if there is such an animal…. I am reading Alan Moorhead’s THE WHITE NILE, to the kids. And have some very good books in the back log. One on the discovery of the origin of corn called the MYSTERIOUS GRAIN…. Then I have a very good one of THE LIFE OF PRAIRIES AND PLAINS, by Durward Allen. Both of these are subject that interest me, as well….” In fine, clean condition. RRAuction COA.
