Ian Fleming | Typed letter signed, to Amherst Villiers, discussing On Her Majesty's Secret Service and the film From Russia, With Love, 1963

Ian Fleming

Typed letter signed, to Amherst Villiers, discussing On Her Majesty's Secret Service, referring to the portrait Villiers painted of Fleming, "When my book was published, the whole of England was covered with reproductions of your portrait...", and the film From Russia, With Love, "The first night of "From Russia, With Love" was a success and the queues form all day round Leicester Square where it is showing at the Odeon. The whole film is a tremendous lark", ending affectionately, "I miss you very much and would like you back as soon as possible, even if I have to submit to another portrait!"

2 pages, 8vo, on blue paper headed 4 Old Mitre Court, 16 October 1963

[with:]

Two typed letters signed from P.A. Griffie, Ian Fleming's secretary, to Amherst Villiers, the first dictated by Fleming days before his passing, the second written shortly after his death, August 1964

These touching letters provide an insight into the close relationship Fleming had with Amherst Villiers.