The Man with the Golden Typewriter (51 page)

¹¹
An article by Liebert on Samuel Johnson.

¹²
‘The Guns of James Bond'.

14  The Liebert Letters

¹
Variously known as Franz or Fritz.

15  On Her Majesty's Secret Service

¹
This remarkable trophy, considered from the outset as in poor taste, is no longer awarded. But then, to balance the scales, neither is the more worthy Peter Fleming Owl.

²
An attempt by the firm Michael Joseph to buy Jonathan Cape had recently failed.

³
The square brackets above are Fleming's own.

⁴
Fleming had written an introduction to one of his favourite novels, Hugh Edwards'
All Night at Mr Stanyhurst's
(1963). Plomer felt his first draft was too pretentious.

⁵
Pietro Annigoni (1910–88), Italian portraitist who had painted Queen Elizabeth in 1956.

⁶
L.G.F. was Plomer's shorthand for ‘Low Grade Fiction', a term that he applied to Fleming's more clichéd expressions.

⁷
  Fleming had described the beaches of Brittany and Picardy as being painted by Manet. Plomer remarked, ‘One doesn't associate Manet with pictures of these beaches.' In the final draft it was changed to Monet.

⁸
  Sir William Rothenstein (1892–1945), painter, draughtsman and authoritative writer on art. He had belonged to the bohemian circle that Fleming's mother attracted in the 1920s.

⁹
A Soviet newspaper that was often critical of Bond.

¹⁰
Dr No
had premiered three days earlier on 5 October 1962.

¹¹
E. L. Doctorow (b. 1931–2015), author of
Welcome to Hard Times
and
Ragtime
. He worked as an editor at NAL (National American Library) press in the 1960s.

¹²
  Arthur Waley (1889–1966) was a distinguished orientalist whose translations opened classical Chinese and Japanese literature culture to the general reader.

16  You Only Live Twice

¹
Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904), Greek-American author who worked as a teacher in Japan during its emergence from feudal state to modern nationhood.

²
In which appeared Cyril Connolly's lampoon, ‘Bond Strikes Camp'.

³
Max Beloff, Fellow of All Souls, whose son Michael was at Magdalen College with Goodwin.

⁴
Fleming's new publisher at the New American Library (NAL).

⁵
Ann had just bought a picture of a gorilla by Australian artist Sidney Nolan (1917–92).

⁶
Fleming had visited the London Motor Show with Moss in 1956.

⁷
Sonia Orwell (1918–80), widow of George Orwell.

17  The Man With the Golden Gun

¹
To help tidy up the manuscript, Cape approached Kingsley Amis, who had just submitted an outline for
The James Bond Dossier
 – a slightly tongue-in cheek examination of Bond's adventures. Amis would later be appointed to write a Bond continuation novel,
Colonel Sun
, which was published in 1968.

²
Fleming had sold a 51 per cent stake in Glidrose, the company that held his literary rights, to his friend Jock Campbell, whose firm Booker Brothers, having acquired other literary estates, became famous as founder of the Booker Prize for fiction.

³
Fleming was badly confused. It was actually his fifty-sixth birthday, and he was born in May not March.

⁴
  Ulick O'Connor's
Oliver St. John Gogarty
was published by Cape in 1963.

⁵
Denton Welch (1915–48), an intense and troubled writer.

⁶
Francis King and Geoffrey Grigson were eminent writers and critics of the period.

⁷
  Richard Meinertzhagen (1878–1967), officer, spy and adventurer, is said to have been a model for James Bond.

⁸
  Francis Chichester (1901–72), British aviator and sailor who became the first person to sail single-handed around the world.

⁹
  The MS being of Amis's
The James Bond Dossier.

The Works of Ian Fleming

¹
Containing the short stories ‘From a View to a Kill', ‘For Your Eyes Only', ‘Quantum of Solace', ‘Risico' and ‘The Hildebrand Rarity'.

²
  Containing, in its first incarnation, ‘Octopussy', ‘The Living Daylights' and ‘The Property of a Lady'. Later reissued with a fourth short story, ‘007 in New York'.

³
  Published in three volumes over the course of several months.

Index

NOTE: In the index the abbreviation IF stands for Ian Fleming. 

Absent-Minded Professor, The
(film) 
here

advertising 
here
,
here
,
here
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here
,
here
,
here
,
here

air travel 
here

Aitken, Bill 
here

Aitken, Max 
see 
Beaverbrook

Algren, Nelson 
here

Allen, Arthur 
here

Alligator
(spoof Bond novel) 
here

Alps 
here
,
here
,
here

Ambler, Eric 
here
,
here

American Booksellers Association (ABA) 
here

Amis, Kingsley 
here
,

Colonel Sun
 
here
,
here

The James Bond Dossier
 
here
,
here
,
here

Andress, Ursula 
here

Annigoni, Pietro 
here

archery 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Arco (publisher) 
here

Arlen, Michael 
here
,
here

Armour, Jennifer 
here

Arnold, Ralph 
here

Aston Martin Owners Club 
here

Astor, John Jacob 
here

Astor, Michael 
here

Australia 
here
,
here
,
here

Bacon, Francis 
here

Bahamas 
here
,
here

Baker, H. S. 
here

Barber, Noel 
here

Barnsley, Alan 
here

Basho (poet) 
here

Beaton, Cecil 
here

Beaverbrook, William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Bedford, Stuart 
here

Bedson, D. R. C. 
here

Bekesbourne, Kent, The Old Palace 
here
,
here

Beloff, Max 
here

Bentine, Michael 
here

Bentley, Elizabeth 
here
,
here

Bentley, Nicolas 
here

Bergonzi, Bernard 
here

Berry, Anthony 
here
,
here

Bianchi, Daniele 
here

Bigg, Ed 
here

Blackwell, Blanche 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Blackwell, Christopher 
here

Blais, Marie-Claire 

Mad Shadows
 
here

Blanchard, Claire 
here

Blue Book
(magazine) 
here

Bond, James 
here

Birds of the West Indies
 
here
,
here

Bonham Carter, Mark 
here

Bonnier (publisher) 
here

Book Clubs 
here
,
here

books, IF's collection 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Book Collector, The
 
here
,
here
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here
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here
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here
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here
,
here
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here
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here
,
here
,
here

Boothroyd, Geoffrey 
here
,
here
,
here

A Guide to Gun Collecting
 
here

letters to IF 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

TV interview with IF 
here

Bottome, Phyllis 
here
,
here

Bowater Paper Corporation Ltd 
here
,
here

Bowler, Stanley 
here

Bowles, Paul 
here

Bratby, John 
here

bridge (cards) 
here
,
here
,
here

Briggs, Joyce 
here

Brighton, Sussex 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

British Interplanetary Society 
here

British Museum 

exhibition of printing 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Broccoli, Albert (‘Cubby') 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Broccoli, Barbara 
here

Brownhill, Charles 
here

Bryce, Jo 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Bryce, John F. C. (‘Ivar') 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

film producer 
here
,
here

Burningham, John 
here
,
here

Burton, Naomi 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Cain, James M. 

The Postman Always Rings Twice
 
here

Calypso
(ship) 
here

Campbell, Jock 
here

Cambell-Gray, Diana 
here

Canada 
here
,
here

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) 
here
,
here
,
here

Cape, David 
here
,
here

Cape, Jonathan 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

letters to IF 
here
,
here
,
here

Cape, Jonathan, publisher 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

IF's first contract 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

see also 
George, Daniel Howard, Michael Howard, Wren
Now and Then

Capote, Truman 
here

Capri 
here

Cargill, Morris 
here

cars 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Bond's 
here
,
here
,
here

in
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
 
here

in
Thunderball
 
here
,
here

IF's 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

see also Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang

Carter, John 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Cartier 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

cartoon strips 
here
,
here

Casino Royale
(IF) 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

contract, initial 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

films 
here

jacket 
here
,
here
,
here

launch 
here
,
here

Pan 
here

sales 
here

title 
here

TV adaptation 
here

Casteret, Norbert 
here

caviar 
here
,
here

Cayman Islands 
here

CBS 
here
,
here
,
here