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'The Man with the Golden Typewriter' is actually the name of a book that is a compendium of Fleming's letters to many people including Geoffrey Boothroyd, 'the armourer'. The book begins with the first letter Fleming wrote on his new gold typewriter that he purchased when his first book Casino Royale was a bestseller (100 million Bond books sold to date).
And it was Casino Royale that prompted the exchange of letters between Boothroyd and Fleming that led to the debacle about the incompatible pistol and holster. One would think that's an exaggeration but according to this book, criticisms abounded of Fleming's books in general and he quite took all of them to heart.
Anyway -- I thought I had seen all the letters (images of the actual originals) by and between the two men, yet was surprised to see that in nearly the last between them, Boothroyd mentioned Tom Threepersons; who was still living in Fleming's time (d. 1964 and Tom d. 1969). And Fleming had really had it up to his eyeballs with guns and holsters and not being well, was most discouraging on that topic.
An odd linkage (as was Chic Gaylord's mention of Tom and his holster) that I would have liked to have included in John's and my own Book.
Even odder -- for a book with that title, there are NO images of his letters typed on it. But here's one set of images in my collection (the images, not the actual letters, which were sold at auction sometime in the last decade); it's the first response by Fleming. For me, it's one thing to read the words typeset into a book; quite another to see the actual presentation (Courier typeface, as I recall):
And it was Casino Royale that prompted the exchange of letters between Boothroyd and Fleming that led to the debacle about the incompatible pistol and holster. One would think that's an exaggeration but according to this book, criticisms abounded of Fleming's books in general and he quite took all of them to heart.
Anyway -- I thought I had seen all the letters (images of the actual originals) by and between the two men, yet was surprised to see that in nearly the last between them, Boothroyd mentioned Tom Threepersons; who was still living in Fleming's time (d. 1964 and Tom d. 1969). And Fleming had really had it up to his eyeballs with guns and holsters and not being well, was most discouraging on that topic.
An odd linkage (as was Chic Gaylord's mention of Tom and his holster) that I would have liked to have included in John's and my own Book.
Even odder -- for a book with that title, there are NO images of his letters typed on it. But here's one set of images in my collection (the images, not the actual letters, which were sold at auction sometime in the last decade); it's the first response by Fleming. For me, it's one thing to read the words typeset into a book; quite another to see the actual presentation (Courier typeface, as I recall):
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