Brief TLS signed “Ayn,” one page, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, November 21, 1948. Letter to "Swanie," her agent H. N. Swanson, in full: "I am enclosing the copies of the proposed contract which Alan Collins sent me." In fine condition, with staple holes to the upper left corner.
After the publication of The Fountainhead in 1943, Rand began a relationship with Alan Collins of Curtis Brown Ltd., to represent the rights for a film adaptation. She completed the screenplay in 1944, and the film was released some five years later by Warner Bros. Despite her early soft feelings towards the film, Rand later exclaimed that she 'disliked the movie from beginning to end.'
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