FLEMING, Ian - FLEMING, Ian, & Kingsley Amis.

£12,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Archive of correspondence relating to James Bond typescripts and continuation books. Archive of correspondence between Jonathan Cape, the publisher of Fleming's Bond series, and the author's favoured typist Jean Frampton. The papers mainly consist of friendly professional letters, telegrams, notes and postcards concerning Frampton's employment and also contains some significant early material, kept by Frampton as recycled scrap paper.The main body of correspondence is between Frampton and Isabel Ross, Editorial Manager at Jonathan Cape, concerning Frampton's work to re-type the 1965 critical analysis The James Bond Dossier by Kingsley Amis, and the first post-Fleming Bond continuation novel, Colonel Sun published in 1968, also by Amis under the pseudonym Robert Markham. The archive also includes some noteworthy early Fleming material; some of the typist's retained letters were typed on the verso side of some previously-used Fleming and Bond typescripts which, given the errors shown, were early discarded versions but kept by Frampton as scrap paper. Included here is: an original typed page of Thrilling Cities, a carbon typescript with the three-line Basho poem from You Only Live Twice, typescript sheets from You Only Live Twice, a typesheet from The Man with the Golden Gun, a typesheet from The James Bond Dossier and three sheets from Colonel Sun.The complete collection comprises 19 items as follows:i-iii) Three typed letters signed from Isabel Ross to Jean Frampton.iv-viii) F

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