TLS signed “Ray,” one page, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, October 26, 1958. Letter to Eddie, in part: “I never hear anything about that damned TV show, so I suppose it is either dead or moribund. I think Phil Carey was a bad choice somehow. But that is not what I am really writing about. My secretary, Jean Fracasse, wants the name of a Los Angeles lawyer who specializes in malpractice suits…The details of the projected action had best be left for Jean to discuss with the attorney, if and when she could know of one. The situation is that the lawyers in San Diego are always unwilling to attack a doctor connected with a big clinic for fear of losing accident cases which the clinics might refer to them. And from a legal and medical point of view I am given to understand, and see no reason to doubt it, that San Diego is a good deal of a cesspool. What I learned about lawyers and judges in a divorce action, with which I was concerned as a witness, was enough to make me very unlikely ever to bring an action even if I were well justified.” Another hand has added the names of two lawyers below in pencil. In fine condition.
The “damned TV show” in question was the series Philip Marlowe, based on Raymond Chandler’s famed detective. The show debuted on October 6, 1959, with Carey in the lead, but ran for just one season; its lack of success was attributed to its similarity to other contemporary detective series.
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