TLS signed “Ray,” one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, March 8, 1948. Letter to his agent H. N. Swanson, in full: "Thanks for your letter of March 6. Allow me to express my admiration for the good manners and amiability with which you receive my communications. Quite a contrast from Sydney Sanders whose bitterness is so great that he has his secretary sign what letters he is compelled to write to me. Any story properties now within your hands, that is to say the various novelettes in book form and any story ideas, if there are any, are yours to sell as long as I do not advise you otherwise. Things are pretty tough right now in the story market and I don't think we should be too exacting about price in connection with this old material. Any fear I might once have had of competition with myself is more or less obsolete, since I do not intend, even if I write other pictures, to write them in the hard-boiled manner. I am sensitive to a change of pace in my own mind as well as in the public taste. Thanks for checks from Universal-International and other matters. Bob Montgomery has read the script of Playback and I think he wants to direct it." Chandler makes a single correction to the text in his own hand. In fine condition.
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