Correspondence of Helga Greene concerning publication of the letters of Raymond Chandler, Jan 1959-Dec 1961

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Correspondence between Helga Greene and publishing houses Houghton Mifflin Company, Hamish Hamilton Limited and Alfred A. Knopf, Incorporated. The correspondence relates to a prospective volume of Chandler's letters, which in 1962 was published as Raymond Chandler Speaking. As well as selected letters, the work also included unpublished notes and views on famous crimes, as well as the first four chapters of 'The Poodle Springs Story,' Chandler's final novel, which he was working on at the time of his death. During the editing stages, the book was provisionally entitled 'Chandler on...' and 'Raymond Chandler: An Autobiography in Letters.'

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Folder 1: May-Dec 1959 (fols. 1-75) other correspondents include (fols. 3-28 passim) Neil Morgan of the San Diego Evening Tribune, (fols. 6, 16) Juanita Messick, (fol. 34) Times Literary Supplement, (fol. 35) Basil Kingsley Martin, (fols. 35-36) letters to and concerning New Statesman and Nation, (fol. 38) George Cornish of The New York Herald Tribune, (fols. 39, 54) Norman Cousins of Saturday Review, (fols. 40, 69) Ian Fleming, (fol. 46) Leonard Russell, (fols. 47, 50-51) Edward Weeks and Charles Morton of Atlantic Monthly magazine, (fol. 56) Mystery Writers of America, (fols. 63, 66) James Sandoe, (fol. 64) Ross Russell, (fols. 65, 68) Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett, (fol. 70) Irving Wallace, (fol. 71) Leland D. Butler and (fol. 75) Jean de Leon.
Folder 2: Jan-Dec 1960 (fols. 76-157) other correspondents include (fols. 79-121 passim) Monica McCall, Inc. Literary Agency (agent of Dorothy Gardiner), (fols. 80-81, 86, 109, 113) Ian Fleming, (fol. 82) James Sandoe, (fols. 83, 107, 114) Julian Symons, (fols. 87, 89, 132) Charles Morton of Atlantic Monthly magazine, (fols. 90, 157) Ross Russell, (fols. 96, 100-101, 108) Jean de Leon, (fols. 102-103) Neil Morgan of the San Diego Evening Tribune, (fols. 115, 119-120, 124) John Philip Wellesley Gaskell, (fol. 117) Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett, (fol. 133) Ralph C. Barrow, (fols. 139-142, 146-148, 156) Deirdre Gartrell, (fols. 149-151) letters concerning plagiarism.
Folder 3: Jan-Dec 1961 (fols. 158-343) other correspondents include (fols. 160-161) Deirdre Gartrell, (fol. 163) Judy Gordon-Walker, (fols. 164, 166) Maurice Guinness, (fol. 295) Daily Express, (fol. 169) Ross Russell, (fols. 170, 176) Leonard Russell, (fols. 186, 255, 261) Penguin Books Limited, (fols. 192, 205, 215) Saturday Evening Post, (fols. 194, 197) Julian Symons, (fols. 195, 204, 214) Harper's Bazaar, (fols. 196, 200, 230) Leroy A. Wright, (fol. 198) Sidney Joseph Perelman, (fols. 208-275 passim) Marcel Duhamel of Libraire Gallimard Publishers, (fols. 209, 213) Charles Morton of Atlantic Monthly magazine, (fols. 210, 238) Bernice Baumgarten, (fols. 212, 217) Pocket Books, Inc. (fols. 216, 229) Ray Stark, (fols. 211, 218, 228) Goodson-Todman Enterprises Limited, (fols. 221, 226, 320) Irving Wallace, (fols. 224-340 passim) Armitage Watkins and Marian McNamara of Ann Watkins, Inc. including letters concerning placement of Chandler's 'A Couple of Writers' in Playboy magazine, (fols. 237, 242, 341-342) British Broadcasting Corporation, (fol. 243) Roger Senhouse of Secker & Warburg Limited Publishers, (fols. 281-282) proposed blurb for Houghton Mifflin Company dust jacket, (fols. 286-287) biographical notes on Kathrine Sorley Walker, (fols. 291-293) Joseph Sistrom, (fols. 297, 303) Kurt Desch Publishers, (fols. 300, 302, 304) Verlag Ullstein Publishers, (fols. 305, 307) Bookman Literary Agency, (fols. 308, 331) Argosy magazine, (fol. 320) Irving Wallace, (fol. 325) James Sandoe, (fols. 327, 333, 336) Charles E. Tuttle Company Publishers, (fol. 334) Agenzia Letteraria Internazionale, (fol. 343) Peter Briggs of Ladies' Home Journal.